Ssl – Apache2 redirect www to non-www (with SSL)

apache-2.2redirectssl

Wise people,

I am trying to accomplish the following:

Redirect these:

http://www.veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl    
Home
Home

To

https://veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl

Goal is to send all related URL's to the non-www, SSL address.

This is the code in mij apache2 config (Lines that point to SSL keys removed):

<VirtualHost *:443>
     ServerName veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl
     DocumentRoot /var/www/

     SSLEngine on
     SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/...
     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/...
     SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName www.veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl
     Redirect permanent / https://veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl
     Redirect permanent / https://veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
     ServerName www.veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl
     Redirect permanent / https://veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl/
</VirtualHost>

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options +ExecCGI
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
</Directory>

The result is that http://veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl is rerouted correctly, but the two www. URL's are not. My first thought was that the https://www. also needed a certificate. This however does not explain the other www. not working.

My .htaccess looks like this (generated by wordpress):

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Output from apache2ctl -S:

VirtualHost configuration:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost www.veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl.conf:10)
         port 80 namevhost veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl.conf:14)
*:443                  is a NameVirtualHost
         default server veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl.conf:1)
         port 443 namevhost veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl.conf:1)
         port 443 namevhost www.veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl.conf:18)
ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www"
Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
Mutex rewrite-map: using_defaults
Mutex ssl-stapling: using_defaults
Mutex ssl-cache: using_defaults
Mutex default: dir="/var/lock/apache2" mechanism=fcntl
Mutex mpm-accept: using_defaults
PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="www-data" id=33
Group: name="www-data" id=33

Note that I want to solve this problem using the apache2 config file, not via mod_rewrite (httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/avoid.html)

Any ideas?

Best Answer

This should work:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl
     ServerAlias www.veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl
     Redirect permanent / https://veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
     ServerName www.veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl

     SSLEngine on
     SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/...
     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/...
     SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/...

     Redirect permanent / https://veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
     ServerName veluwsvuurbarneveld.nl
     DocumentRoot /var/www/

     SSLEngine on
     SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/...
     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/...
     SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/...
</VirtualHost>

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options +ExecCGI
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
</Directory>