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Stop localhost auto redirecting to https with the addition of www

Website configured on my localhost 'http://subdomain.customdomain.com' is redirecting to 'https://www.subdomain.customdomain.com' and I cant figure out why.

What I have done is the following:

Setup a hostname on dyn.com ie subdomain.dyndns.org
Setup router to update the dynamic IP to subdomain.dyndns.org on dyn.com (router is updating the IP correctly)
Since I want to use a custom domain added a CNAME record for subdomain.customdomain.com pointing to subdomain.dyndns.org (this is resolving to the correct IP)
Setup port forwarding on the port 80 on my router (external 80 to internal 80)

Setup virtual host on my local apache:

 <VirtualHost subdomain.customdomain.com:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/customdomain"
    ServerName subdomain.customdomain.com:80
    ServerAlias subdomain.customdomain.com:80
</VirtualHost>

Now when I open http://subdomain.customdomain.com in my browser it redirects to https://www.subdomain.customdomain.com with the error: This site can’t be reached www.subdomain.customdomain.com’s server IP address could not be found.

When I directly add subdomain.customdomain.com to point to my LAN IP in my windows host file, It does not redirect and website works fine. Just cant figure out what is going wrong?

Below are the .htaccess file contents:

# BEGIN WordPress
# The directives (lines) between `BEGIN WordPress` and `END WordPress` are
# dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters.
# Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:pdf)$">
    ForceType application/pdf
    Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-09T16:30:44.770Z

Fixed the issue! The issue was with the virtual host configurations.

The configuration which was causing the issue

<VirtualHost *:80> 
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/">
    AllowOverride All
    Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost subdomain.customdomain.com:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/some/directory/wordpress"
ServerName subdomain.customdomain.com:80
ServerAlias subdomain.customdomain.com:80
</VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost www.somedomain.com:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/some/directory2/wordpress"
ServerName www.somedomain.com:80
ServerAlias somedomain.com:80
</VirtualHost>

The configuration which fixed it:

<VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName subdomain.customdomain.com:80
ServerAlias subdomain.customdomain.com:80
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/some/directory/wordpress"
</VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost  *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/some/directory2/wordpress"
ServerName www.somedomain.com:80
ServerAlias somedomain.com:80
</VirtualHost>

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