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I'm making an advertisement blocking DNS server that redirects all the advertisement domains to an instance of Apache. So something like



www.addomain.com


gets redirected to



dnsserver.localnetwork


However, occasionally I come across links more like



www.addomain.com/some_ad


which gets redirected to 



dnsserver.localnetwork/some_ad


which doesn't even exist and hence raises a 404 error.



I was hoping that there would be some way to make Apache serve index.html, regardless of the actual request. Otherwise, if you have an alternate solution that does not involve Apache, I'm up for that too.


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In Ubuntu, make sure mod_alias is enabled:



sudo a2enmod alias


Then in your VirtualHost directive you can use AliasMatch.



Example:



<VirtualHost *:80>

    DocumentRoot /path/to/your/host

    ServerName yourdomain.com

    DirectoryIndex index.html



    AliasMatch ^/(.*)$ /path/to/your/host/index.html



    <Directory "/path/to/your/host">

      Require all granted

    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>


Now everything gets redirected to /index.html.


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