Apache HTTP virtualhost always redirects to HTTPS default virtual host

J.B.

5/27/23, 5:58 PM

In my Apache 2.4.41 HTTP server I have some HTTPS virtualhosts, and an HTTP-only one. I noticed that this HTTP virtualhost is not reachable, because users are always redirected to the default HTTPS virtualhost: when an user wants to visit http://water.sitename.com he gets redirected to https://app.sitename.com

I used apache2ctl -S command and virtualhosts look correctly configured to me:

VirtualHost configuration:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server app.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/app.sitename.com.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost app.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/app.sitename.com.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost ticket.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ticket.sitename.com.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost water.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/water.sitename.com.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost www.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.sitename.com.conf:2)
*:443                  is a NameVirtualHost
         default server app.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/app.sitename.com.conf:15)
         port 443 namevhost app.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/app.sitename.com.conf:15)
         port 443 namevhost ticket.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ticket.sitename.com.conf:15)
         port 443 namevhost www.sitename.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/www.sitename.com.conf:63)
                 alias sitename.com:443

And here is water.sitename.conf in sites-enabled folder:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName water.sitename.com

        ServerAdmin [email protected]

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/water.sitename.com/error.log
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/water.sitename.com/access.log combined

        DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal

        <Directory "/var/www/drupal/">
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Do you have any clue?

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apache-2.4

Bob

5/27/23, 11:21 PM

Look for a `.htaccess` file or a an application level redirect since there isn’t anything in the virtual host entry that explains the redirect

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