Slightly off-topic: You mentioned you had tried AI and their suggested
solutions didn't work.
FYI, I had been posting a problem with Apache and a problem with "undefined
symbol".
Thankfully, I eventually got information that let me get past that from USERS
(real people) on this mailing list, but I had also gotten an AI response from
Google AI during one of the Google searches I did during my research, that had
filled me with hope (it said there was an "optional" parameter on the Apache
LoadModule directive), but when I tried doing that, I got an error from Apache
saying that LoadModule only took the expected 2 parameters.
So moral of the story: Be skeptical about AI responses ;)!!
Jim
On Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 05:32:10 AM EST, Mike Dewhirst
<mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
I have a number of domain names which I want to redirect in order to have a
single search engine site.
mysite.com
mysite.com.au
mysite.au
www.mysite.com
www.mysite.com.au
www.mysite.au
I want mysite.com to be the single site for seo purposes. I want any of the
above to force redirection to mysite.com and not display the user-entered
domain.
Not only have I researched this via the docs I have asked three different AIs
and none of their solutions work as desired despite seemingly complying with
the docs. I have to accept the blame for the prompts.
Here is my best guess at a proper redirection for all domain names ...
files: mysite.com.conf, www.mysite.com.conf, mysite.com.au.conf,
www.mysite.com.au.conf, mysite.au.conf, www.mysite.au.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.com
ServerAlias www.mysite.com mysite.com.au www.mysite.com.au mysite.au
www.mysite.au
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Redirect permanent / https://mysite.com/
</VirtualHost>
end file mysite.com.au
All have been enabled (a2ensite ...) on Ubuntu 2024.04 LTS server
The main conf file for mysite.com is mysite.com-le-ssl.conf and it has the
*:443 configuration.
Many thanks for any education/clarification in layman terms.
Cheers
Mike
