RE: [users@httpd] Subdomain with scriptalias - really Redirect?

[Boyle Owen <Ow...@swx.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Vila [mailto:avp@imente.com]
> 
> First of all, sorry for my poor english.

It wasn't a question of language - just logic...

> 
> I've got a website like www.mydomain.com. This website has multiple 
> subsections with multiple locations (spain, france, ...).
> 
> Now, in order to change the location, the user clicks on the 
> france link 
> (http://www.mydomain.com/?location=france). I don't want 
> that. I wanna 
> change the location using the http://france.mydomain.com.
> 
> Then, I was asking if using the apache configuration I can do this 
> transparently.
> 
> france.mydomain.com --> www.mydomain.com/?location=france.
> 
> I don't want the user see ?location=france.

First of all; Is there some reason why you can't simply put "http://france.mydomain.com" into the link on the webpage? Why do you need to bother with the CGI at all?

Assuming there is, then would a Redirect solve your problem? There are a few ways to do this:

- In the CGI, just send a redirect response: eg, (in Perl)

print "Location:  http://france.mydomain.com \n\n";

- In the config, map the link using Redirect:

Redirect /your-link http://france.mydomain.com

see for details: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect

- use mod_rewrite, eg (untested):

RewriteCond  %{QUERY_STRING}  france$
RewriteRule  ^/$              http://france.mydomain.com    [R]

see for details; http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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> 
> Thanks
> 
> Boyle Owen wrote:
> 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Albert Vila [mailto:avp@imente.com]
> >>
> >>    I've got a domain www.mydomain.com, then I wanna create n 
> >>subdomains 
> >>by country, for example spain.mydomain.com, 
> >>france.mydomain.com, etc. I 
> >>can change the country manually using the 
> >>www.mydomain.com/index.cgi?country=id, but I wanna do that 
> >>automatically 
> >>every time the user change the url from xxx.mydomain.com to 
> >>yyy.mydomain.com.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I read your mail three times and still don't understand it.
> >
> >What exactly do you want to achieve? Write a narrative which 
> shows what
> >the user types and what you want to happen at each step. 
> Remember that
> >the audience has no prior knowledge of your website or what 
> you want to
> >do..
> >
> >Rgds,
> >Owen Boyle
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> >
> >  
> >
> >>    How can I achieve that transparently?
> >>
> >>
> >>Thank you.
> >>   
> >>
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