Redirect ALL requests to host IP

Question

I have a honeypot running on AP so if anyone connects and try's to browse it will redirect to the root page. I am using dnsmasq to do this with the following entry

log-facility=/var/log/dnsmasq.log
address=/#/10.0.0.1
interface=wlan0
dhcp-range=10.0.0.10,10.0.0.250,12h
no-resolv
log-queries

This works fine if someone were to go to http://example.com but if they try http://example.com/somerandompage.html I get a 404 error or if they try https://example.com it just times out.

What would be the best method to redirect everything to http://serverip/index.html while still allowing http://serverip/someOtherPage?with=options.html with a preference for .htaccess solution.

Answer 1

if they try http://example.com/somerandompage.html I get a 404 error

To redirect all requests to example.com (non-HTTPS) back to the serverip/index.html in .htaccess (or perferably in your server config):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://serverip/index.html [R=301,L]

This assumes your site is only accessible over example.com. If you also have the www subdomain then you would need to modify the condition to read:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]

This will also redirect http://example.com or does dnsmasq kick in before this?

if they try https://example.com it just times out.

You will only be able to resolve this by making your site accessible over HTTPS. ie. by installing a security certificate.

I have a honeypot...

If by "honeypot" you mean you are logging and blocking IPs/users that access the domain, then redirecting in .htaccess might skip this out (depending on when dnsmasq runs?). You could perhaps redirect to http://example.com instead?