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