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Asked: 2026-06-02T20:18:25+00:00

Some context : I’m serving a website under the domains domain.com and alternate-domain.com .

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Some context: I’m serving a website under the domains domain.com and alternate-domain.com. I would like to redirect all requests so that they:

  1. use SSL (basically, redirect http -> https)
  2. use the canonical hostname domain.com (e.g. remove the www prefix)

That’s what I have at the top of my apache configuration:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  Redirect permanent / https://domain.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:433>
  Redirect permanent / https://domain.com/
  SSLEngine on

  # SSL Certificate directives are here.
</VirtualHost>

And then later on I have the config for https://domain.com:

<VirtualHost *:443>
  ServerName domain.com
  # ...
</VirtualHost>

This works as expected when I access non-HTTPS pages:

However, it doesn’t work when I access domains through HTTPS. What I mean by that is that the redirection doesn’t happen.

Examples:

(Note: it’s normal that certificate warnings occur as they don’t match the domain for which I have the certificate. All the more reason for redirecting users.)

What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, problem solved – I made a typical stupid mistake.

    In the SSL default vhost, I listen on port 433. Should be 443of course.

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