Redirect sever ip to domain

Hi folks,

I have a dedicated server which hosts only one site. When I enter the ip address of the server into a browser I get the default apache index page.

I would like to redirect the ip address to the domain. I tried to do it using htaccess rewrite rules but it doesn't appear to work or I've done it wrong.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^123\.45\.67\.89
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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Thanks for any help!

 

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Well, I am not an expert in this, but I suggest you could try using the Virtual Hosts module on your httpd.conf (I suppose you are using apache) to point that ip to a specific directory, where you can place the .htaccess file with the 301 redirection.

Let me know if this works.

 

Why would you do that? Just put the 301 directly in the VirtualHost entry, in the httpd.conf file.

 

Setting up a VirtualHost is the correct way to do it but you could put a regular htaccess redirection on it.