Using Morph Labs' Appspace to deploy a site means no automated way to redirect 'myapp.com' to 'www.myapp.com' (and no access to .htacess).
Is there an in-rails way to do this? Would I need a plugin like subdomain-fu?
More specifically, I'm trying to do something like:
- 'myapp.com' => 'www.myapp.com'
- 'myapp.com/session/new' => 'www.myapp.com/session/new'
Basically, I always want the 'www' subdomain prepended on every request (because the SSL cert specifically has a common name of 'www.myapp.com').
Maybe something like this would do the trick:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
before_filter :check_uri
def check_uri
redirect_to request.protocol + "www." + request.host_with_port + request.request_uri if !/^www/.match(request.host)
end
end
Carson's answer works great.
Here's the code to go the other way (www -> no www)
before_filter :check_uri
def check_uri
if /^www/.match(request.host)
redirect_to request.protocol + request.host_with_port[4..-1] + request.request_uri
end
end
I had to change Carson's answer to get this to work in Rails 3. I replaced request.uri with request.fullpath:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
protect_from_forgery
Rails.env.production? do
before_filter :check_url
end
def check_url
redirect_to request.protocol + "www." + request.host_with_port + request.fullpath if !/^www/.match(request.host)
end
end
This worked great for me. I did make one small addition as I only wanted this behavior in my production environment:
def check_uri
redirect_to request.protocol + "www." + request.host_with_port + request.request_uri if !/^www/.match(request.host) if Rails.env == 'production'
end
I know this is answered, but I thought everyone else should know about the CodeRack: Canonical Host solution. This is really nice as it allows for env specific redirects. http://coderack.org/users/tylerhunt/middlewares/6-canonical-host
Here is a couple of different ways:
head :moved_permanently, :location => ‘http://www.newdomain.com’
another:
def rails_301
headers["Status"] = "301 Moved Permanently"
redirect_to "http://www.newdomain.com"
end
For those of you who are looking to also force SSL using heroku, this worked well for me, based on Heroku SSL on root domain
In my DNS settings I set up a URL / Forward record (DNS Simple)
URL foo.com 3600 http://www.foo.com
The CNAME setup only needs to be setup for WWW
CNAME www.foo.com 3600 providedssslendpoint.herokussl.com
I also had to setup and Alias for my root
ALIAS foo.com 3600 providedsslendpoint.herokussl.com
Then I decided to simply replace foo.com with an env variable ENV['SITE_HOST']
(where SITE_HOST might equal www.foo.com or test.foo.com) so I can have control via my heroku configuration. That way, I can control what happens in different environments. (for setting up env variables locally see https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv)
For example, my test app uses test.foo.com as the url it also has its own SSL endpoint so that works fine for me.
before_filter :check_domain
def check_domain
if Rails.env.production? || Rails.env.testing? and request.host.downcase != ENV['SITE_HOST']
redirect_to request.protocol + ENV['SITE_HOST'] + request.fullpath, :status => 301
end
end
From now on, end users will always access www with forced SSL. Old links will suffer a small hang but nothing noticeable.