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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Accessing a site page from a different virtual host

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Adam Kollar

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Issue

  • When there are 2 or more sites for example Site1 and Site2.
    Site1 is mapped to the friendly URL "site1" and Site2 is mapped to "site2".
    They both have virtual hosts site1.com and site2.com.

  • The sites can be reached through localhost:8080/web/site1 or localhost:8080/web/site2 as well as site1.com and site2.com.

  • Site1 can also be reached through site2.com/web/site1 and Site1 can be reached the same way on site2.com/web/site1.

Environment

  • DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • To enforce access restrictions on websites accessed from virtual hosts divergent from their designated assignments, you can employ Apache's redirection capabilities. 
    Apache serves as a front-facing web server interfacing with Liferay's Tomcat infrastructure, facilitating the implementation of such access control measures.
  • This can also be achieved by utilizing Nginx rewrite rule functionality.
  • Please see the following example:
     
    RewriteCond expr "! %{HTTP_REFERER} -strmatch '*://%{HTTP_HOST}/group/*'" 
    RewriteRule ^/web/group-key https://www.group-domain.com [R,L]
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