Possible OLS redirect bug?

ordinary

I'm not sure if this is a bug or I'm missing something obvious.

I have an account with 4 domains configured on an OpenLiteSpeed application server:

acme.com.au (primary, doc root "/public_html" but A records pointed to SquareSpace)
acme.com (addon, doc root "/public_html")
acmecompany.com.au (addon, doc root "/public_html")
staging.acme.com.au (subdomain, doc root "/public_html/staging")

I want to setup 301's for "acme.com" and "acmecompany.com.au" > "acme.com.au".

When I configure these in Advanced > Redirects, Enhance updates the "/.htaccess" file, but I get a 404 error when visiting "acme.com" and "acmecompany.com.au".

If I manually move the rules from "/.htaccess" to "/public_html/.htaccess" the redirects work correctly.

Should the redirect interface detect the right place to put the rewrite rules in this case?

I know I probably should have added these domains as aliases. I'm not sure if that would make any difference.

Appreciate any advice.

Adam

This is a bit of an issue with the current redirect manager, the behaviour on Openlitespeed isn't correct.

We are working on a new redirect manager which will rewrite the redirects directly to the web server config, making the behaviour consistent across all web server variants. In the meantime your solution of copying the rules to the public_html/.htaccess is a good workaround.