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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Hanack Leif <Le...@t-systems.com> on 2005/03/15 11:29:43 UTC

[users@httpd] basic rewrite question concerning redirect : ^$ or ^/$

Hello, 

i detected a strange behaviour:

I have two vhosts:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName intra-jawa.com

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^$ http://intra-jawa.com/portal/login.jsp [R,L]
    ...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName intra-jawa1.com

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^$ http://intra-jawa1.com/portal/login.jsp [R,L]
    ...
</VirtualHost>

When i call http://intra-jawa.com i'm redirected to the login page.
Calling http://intra-jawa1.com i receive a 403 : Access denied.

Why?

Changing the rule to 

    RewriteRule ^/$ http://intra-jawa1.com/portal/login.jsp [R,L]

will forward to the login page even if i just enter the 
domain http://intra-jawa1.com without a trailing /

My idea was to have a rule that automatically redirect to a login 
page when the blank domain names are entered.

TIA, Leif
    

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Re: [users@httpd] basic rewrite question concerning redirect : ^$ or ^/$

Posted by Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:29:43 +0100, Hanack Leif
<Le...@t-systems.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i detected a strange behaviour:
> 
> I have two vhosts:
> 
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>     ServerName intra-jawa.com
> 
>     RewriteEngine on
>     RewriteRule ^$ http://intra-jawa.com/portal/login.jsp [R,L]
>     ...
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>     ServerName intra-jawa1.com
> 
>     RewriteEngine on
>     RewriteRule ^$ http://intra-jawa1.com/portal/login.jsp [R,L]
>     ...
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> When i call http://intra-jawa.com i'm redirected to the login page.
> Calling http://intra-jawa1.com i receive a 403 : Access denied.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Changing the rule to
> 
>     RewriteRule ^/$ http://intra-jawa1.com/portal/login.jsp [R,L]
> 
> will forward to the login page even if i just enter the
> domain http://intra-jawa1.com without a trailing /

Use the RewriteLog to figure out what is going on.  In my opinion,
both of them should be using the ^/$ syntax.  The URL-path used by
RewriteRule will start with a slash when it is used in a server-wide
of <VirtualHost> context.  It is only when it is used in a <Directory>
or .htaccess file that the / will be missing.

Joshua.

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