Apache subdomain redirection

Question

Helo,

I want to redirect my subdomain to an internal URL.

For example when user types in someaddress.com he should see a homepage

but when xxx.someaddress.com is typed in I'd like to open http://someaddress.com/testpage

How to achieve this?

I already tried with:

<VirtualHost *:8089>
    DocumentRoot "c:\app"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost sms.localhost:8089>
    ServerName smslocalhost
    Redirect permanent / http://localhost:8089/testpage
</VirtualHost>

Problem is that whatever I type in now, I get redirected to http://localhost:8089/testpage

Answer 1

I'm not sure your first vhost definition is doing anything so everything is being processed by the second definition. Try

<VirtualHost *:8089>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "c:\app"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost sms.localhost:8089>
    ServerName sms.localhost
    Redirect permanent / http://localhost:8089/testpage
</VirtualHost>

EDIT: From the comments.

NameVirtualHost *:8089

fixed the problem.