Add custom rewrite rules for a subdomain

[goftari]

Dear forum members,
I am not much familiar with DirectAdmin and need to add a RewriteRule to proxy specific directories under a subdomain to another server.
I am using LiteSpeed v5.4 in which ProxyPass cannot be defined, so I am inserting my RewriteCond lines and RewriteRule in the httpd.conf file located in /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/user1/ (user1 is the main domain user) where the config is containing all the subdomains virtual hosts config.
I inserted my code inside the following tag under the desired virtual host.
<IfModule Litespeed>
CacheRoot lscache
</IfModule>

Everything works correctly until any changes are made to subdomains from DirectAdmin and the aforementioned config file gets rewritten by DirectAdmin.
Any help would be appreciated!
Regards

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

You shouldn't modify httpd.conf file directly. Connect to DirectAdmin as admin and insert your custom code into a virtual host on the page "Custom HTTPD Configurations". This way will you have a protection from your customization to be lost.

 

[goftari]

Hello,

You shouldn't modify httpd.conf file directly. Connect to DirectAdmin as admin and insert your custom code into a virtual host on the page "Custom HTTPD Configurations". This way will you have a protection from your customization to be lost.

Thanks @zEitEr
But I was looking to use CUSTOM tags to place the customization inside specific segment of code. But was not able to use CUSTOM tag properly.
For instance, how may I add url rewrite to redirect HTTP to HTTPS traffic just under virtual host config for :80 virtual host entry of the sub-domain?

 

[zEitEr]

There are at least 2 approaches:

1. Add your subdomain as a domain with its own public_html. Use DirectAdmin's native option for redirecting traffic from HTTP to HTTPs.
2. Use IF-statements in CUSTOM section of DirectAdmin, e.g.:

# Check subdomain name:
|*if SUB="zzzz"|
   |?SSL_REDIRECT_HOST=1|
|*endif|
# Disable redirect if already HTTPS is used
|*if SSL_TEMPLATE="1"|
   |?SSL_REDIRECT_HOST=|
|*endif|
# Redirect to HTTPS for a subdomain
|*if SSL_REDIRECT_HOST!=""|
      Redirect / https://|SUB|.|DOMAIN|/
|*endif|

where zzzz should be replaced by your real domain name.

Something like this.

 

[goftari]

There are at least 2 approaches:

1. Add your subdomain as a domain with its own public_html. Use DirectAdmin's native option for redirecting traffic from HTTP to HTTPs.
2. Use IF-statements in CUSTOM section of DirectAdmin, e.g.:

# Check subdomain name:
|*if SUB="zzzz"|
   |?SSL_REDIRECT_HOST=1|
|*endif|
# Disable redirect if already HTTPS is used
|*if SSL_TEMPLATE="1"|
   |?SSL_REDIRECT_HOST=|
|*endif|
# Redirect to HTTPS for a subdomain
|*if SSL_REDIRECT_HOST!=""|
      Redirect / https://|SUB|.|DOMAIN|/
|*endif|

where zzzz should be replaced by your real domain name.

Something like this.

Thanks for your reply.
Does the Redirect command accepts regex like:
Redirect (.*) https://|SUB|.|DOMAIN|/$1

 

[zEitEr]

No. For a dynamic redirect you will need to use mod_rewrite. In this case replace the line:

Redirect / https://|SUB|.|DOMAIN|/

with your own redirect instructions.

See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html for more examples.