How can I setup a 302 or 301 redirect from a subdomain to an external site?

[subtlecourage]

Hello, I need to setup URL redirect 302 from something.mydomain.com to externaldomain.com/path

Since I am pointing my A records to cloudron, my DNS provider is unable to do this for me and they told me it has to be done on Cloudron's end.

Thank you for your email! I'm happy to clarify.

Though the DNS of your account is hosted by Fastmail. We
can only set up such a redirect website if the A records
of the domain are pointing to our IPs. Currently, I can
see that you've pointed the A records to a different
service.

Please contact your WebHost and they'll let you know
what needs to be done to set up such a redirect. If they
suggest creating any additional records, you can do so
from the Settings->Domains->Edit(for your domain)->
Customize DNS screen.

Feel free to contact me with any additional questions!

[fbartels]

Hi @subtlecourage,

this could be (sort of) achieved with the surfer app and a simple html. You can read more about it at https://forum.cloudron.io/post/19387.

[micmc]

Wouldn't the redirection feature of Cloudron simply work?

https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#redirections

Andy

[fbartels]

@micmc said in How can I setup a 302 or 301 redirect from a subdomain to an external site?:

Wouldn't the redirection feature of Cloudron simply work?

This would only work if the url to be redirected to is also the same Cloudron app.

[micmc]

@fbartels said in How can I setup a 302 or 301 redirect from a subdomain to an external site?:

@micmc said in How can I setup a 302 or 301 redirect from a subdomain to an external site?:

Wouldn't the redirection feature of Cloudron simply work?

This would only work if the url to be redirected to is also the same Cloudron app.

Yeah, you're right.

[scooke]

@fbartels I hope op will let us know if they tried this or not.

[subtlecourage]

@fbartels said in How can I setup a 302 or 301 redirect from a subdomain to an external site?:

Hi @subtlecourage,

this could be achieved with the surfer app and a simple html. You can read more about it at https://forum.cloudron.io/post/19387.

@scooke said in How can I setup a 302 or 301 redirect from a subdomain to an external site?:

@fbartels I hope op will let us know if they tried this or not.

HUZZAH!! That worked!

I will have to see how advanced surfer will let me get with site design so it is not as ugly as while background and black text. But this is an AWESOME STARTING POINT!!

Thanks!

[robi]

@subtlecourage just set the refresh to "0" and you shouldn't even see that.

Or change the color of the page.

[subtlecourage]

@robi

It still loads, but for a millisecond.

I almost would rather a pretty background and better design to load for 5 seconds or so. But I guess ill just have to play with it.

[robi]

@subtlecourage ..or prep a nice subliminal message ;-]

[subtlecourage]

@robi
HAHAHAHA

Thats an excellent idea.

Thanks for clicking, dont forget to buy everything!!

[micmc]

@subtlecourage said in How can I setup a 302 or 301 redirect from a subdomain to an external site?:

@robi
HAHAHAHA

Thats an excellent idea.

Thanks for clicking, dont forget to buy everything!!

"Teleportation occurring please hold on..."

[privsec]

@micmc Oh! Thats Great!

[ccfu]

Why not use a LAMP app and .htaccess?

[subtlecourage]

@ccfu
I have never used either.

to reinforce the noob, any documentation on that?

[ccfu]

@subtlecourage

It's very simple. Just spin up a LAMP app with something.mydomain.com as the location. Then, in the file manager create a file .htaccess in the public directory with the following content:

# Permanent URL redirect 
RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 / https://externaldomain.com/path

Any requests to something.mydomain.com will then be forwarded to externaldomain.com/path

There is plenty of documentaton on this if you do a Google search for 301 redirect .htaccess. there are also generators that will provide you with the correct code for different scenarios, for example redirecting specific pages.

[toxicdorito]

Alrighty, so I'm running into this issue night now. I'm trying to setup over 9 different redirects to htmls. Basically, sub1.domain.com connects to domain.com/sub1.html for all of them. This being a setup for redirection generator links. Theoretically, I could create a app for every sub domain, or I could just setup sub-directories for it. But, I am importing a project that is live, so I'm going to have to stick with the sub-domain method. Is there a way to bypass the redirection without making tons of apps? I know I could do a rewrite condition, however that only works when the redirect is made on the site through htaccess. But redirecting it through the panel ensures that you never reach the htaccess under the sub domain and if you don't specify the sub-domain, the web-server never responds to it.

[toxicdorito]

@toxicdorito I see now, that the LAMP App is missing alias, I'm unsure if that might be the fix, but I think so. All I know is, I can't figure this stuff out

[nebulon]

@toxicdorito yes the alias features + htaccess rewrite using the LAMP app should solve this for you.

The LAMP app also has multiDomain and thus alias support. Can you double check in the Location tab of the app configure screen in your Coudron dashboard?

[robi]

This is also solvable with the Surfer App + aliases and some HTML+JS to redirect incoming subdomains to directory paths/pages.