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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Robin Bowes <ro...@robinbowes.com> on 2005/05/14 13:31:58 UTC

[users@httpd] Help with simple rewrite

Hi,

I'm running apache-2.0.52-3.1 on Fedora Core 3.

I would like to re-direct http://robinbowes.com/gallery to 
http://gallery.robinbowes.com, and change the URL in the browser to the 
new one too.

I'm currently using the following:

     <Directory "/home/apache/robinbowes.com/geeklog/live/public_html/">
         RewriteEngine On
         RewriteBase /
         RewriteRule ^/gallery$ http://gallery.robinbowes.com [L,R]
     </Directory>

This does the re-direct, but does not change the URL in my browser.

Am I doing this the right way? How can I get the browser URL to change?

Thanks,

R.
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[users@httpd] Re: Help with simple rewrite

Posted by Robin Bowes <ro...@robinbowes.com>.
Manuel Blechschmidt wrote:
> Robin Bowes wrote:
>>
>> I would like to re-direct http://robinbowes.com/gallery to 
>> http://gallery.robinbowes.com, and change the URL in the browser to 
>> the new one too.

[snip]

> For you problem Redirect is used. This sends an Location Header to the 
> client.
> Redirect /gallery/ http://gallery.example.com

Easy when you know how, eh?

Thanks very much - it's now working as required.

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Re: [users@httpd] Help with simple rewrite

Posted by Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>.
On 5/15/05, Manuel Blechschmidt <ma...@gmx.de> wrote:
> >     <Directory "/home/apache/robinbowes.com/geeklog/live/public_html/">
> >         RewriteEngine On
> >         RewriteBase /
> >         RewriteRule ^/gallery$ http://gallery.robinbowes.com [L,R]
> >     </Directory>
> >
> > This does the re-direct, but does not change the URL in my browser.
> 
> This is correct. The Rewriteengine is normally used to hide parameters
> of an cgi script. So it does an internal translation of the URL.
> http://www.example.com/contact/form.html ->
> http://www.example.com/index.php?cat=contact&content=form

The "R" above indicates an external redirect, which will do the same
as a Redirect directive, so the use of RewriteRule is not the problem.
 The problem is likely the fact that the RewriteRule is inside a
<Directory> section, which is unnecessary and leads to confusion. 
Checking with the RewriteLog would probably show the problem.

Of course, using just the Redirect directive is simpler and should
work fine in this case.

Joshua.

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Re: [users@httpd] Help with simple rewrite

Posted by Manuel Blechschmidt <ma...@gmx.de>.
Robin Bowes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running apache-2.0.52-3.1 on Fedora Core 3.
>
> I would like to re-direct http://robinbowes.com/gallery to 
> http://gallery.robinbowes.com, and change the URL in the browser to 
> the new one too.

>
> I'm currently using the following:
>
>     <Directory "/home/apache/robinbowes.com/geeklog/live/public_html/">
>         RewriteEngine On
>         RewriteBase /
>         RewriteRule ^/gallery$ http://gallery.robinbowes.com [L,R]
>     </Directory>
>
> This does the re-direct, but does not change the URL in my browser.

This is correct. The Rewriteengine is normally used to hide parameters 
of an cgi script. So it does an internal translation of the URL.
http://www.example.com/contact/form.html -> 
http://www.example.com/index.php?cat=contact&content=form

> Am I doing this the right way? How can I get the browser URL to change?

For you problem Redirect is used. This sends an Location Header to the 
client.
Redirect /gallery/ http://gallery.example.com


>
> Thanks,
>
> R.

Greetings
    Manuel

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