How to Redirect a URL in a Virtual Host | Redirecting a URL in a virtual host is a snap! I’ll show you how. Scenario: you have a server that receives example.com but you want that to redirect to example2.com. First you will want to add this to your /etc/apache2/ports.conf (Debian or Ubuntu) or /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (Red Hat or CentOS) if you have not already: NameVirtualHost