I usually handle the redirect on the webserver side and set the alias in server.xml to the subdomain.
John Larsen On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:11 AM Simon Funnell <simonfunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was going to do a redirect at my dns provider from the naked domain to > the www subdomain. Unfortunatly this doesn't really work if it is over > https so I am going to have to do the redirect at the host level. My > question is, is this what the rewrite valve is for? I was going to set up > two hosts, one for the naked domain and one for the subdomain with a set up > like the following: > > <Host name="domain.org" appBase="webapps2" > unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> > <!-- Insert rewrite valve here --> > </Host> > > <Host name="www.domain.org" appBase="webapps" > unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> > > <!-- Access log processes all example. > Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html > Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" > --> > <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" > directory="logs" > prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt" > pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" /> > > </Host> > > If this is what the rewrite valve is for, how do I configure it to redirect > to the subdomain apart from when it accesses the .well-known folder (which > is needed to get a letsencrypt certificate). > > If the rewrite valve is not the correct way to do this do I just deploy a > catch all servlet or a filter to do the redirect instead? > > Thanks, > > Simon >
