Redirect to Home Assistant using Apache

This video tutorial provides steps on how to set up your Home Assistant server to redirect to the appropriate port number so that you don't have to manually enter it when connecting to the server.

Video

Code Used

Code that is used to create the webpage in the video is below.

<html>
<head>
<title>Redirecting...</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://homeautomation:8123'" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Redirecting to <a href="http://homeautomation:8123">http://homeautomation:8123</a></p>
</body>
</html>

The Script

The script below will create the page above in addition to installing the necessary pages that are required for this purpose.

#!/bin/bash

##############################################
# Name: redirect_home_assistant_using_apache.sh
# Author: Kenny Robinson, @almostengr
# Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn9-tm5bHDY&t=1s
# Description: Redirect to Home Assistant using Apache2
###############################################

if [ "$(id -u)" == "0" ]; then
    read -p "Enter your Home Assistant URL: " haURL

    if [ "${haURL}" != "" ]; then
        echo "Updating and installing Apache2"

        apt-get update
        apt-get install apache2 -y

        echo "Done updating and installing Apache2"
        echo "Moving old index.html file"   

        cd /var/www

        mv index.html index.html.old

        echo "Done moving old index.html file"
        echo "Creating new index.html file"

        touch index.html

        echo "<html>" >> index.html
        echo "<head>" >> index.html
        echo "<title>Redirecting...</title>" >> index.html
        echo "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL='${haURL}'\" />" >> index.html
        echo "</head>" >> index.html
        echo "<body>" >> index.html
        echo "<p>Redirecting to <a href=\"${haURL}\">${haURL}</a></p>" >> index.html
        echo "</body>" >> index.html
        echo "</html>" >> index.html

        chmod 754 index.html

        echo "Done creating new index.html file"
    else
        echo "Home Assistant URL was not entered"
    fi
else
    echo "Not running as root user"
    echo "Rerun this script with the following command"
    echo "sudo bash redirect_home_assistant_using_apache.sh"
fi

Updated: 2023-02-14 | Posted: 2018-05-08

Author: Kenny Robinson, @almostengr