RE: URL forwarding

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Price, Erik wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sebastiaan [mailto:S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:14 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: URL forwarding
>
> > My current situation is that I own a domain, say
> > mydomain.com, and that I
> > have a webpage on a fast webserver, say www.myweb.com/~mypage/.
> >
> > What I would like to do is that www.mydomain.com becomes an
> > equivalent for
> > www.myweb.com/~mypage/.
> >
> > It is not possible to handle this with DNS (at least, I have
> > not succeeded
> > until now). I run the DNS server my own, and if needed I can
> > run a HTTP
> > server too.
> >
> > I think this is easily done with Apache. Does anyone have any
> > hints for
> > this problem?
>
> Yes, using the mod_rewrite module that can be DSO'd into the web server.  Read all about it here:
>
> <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html>
>
>
Hey, looks like the stuff I need. Unfortunetely I am unable to configure
it correctly. I am stranded at:

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase   %{REQUEST_URI}
RewriteRule   ^(.+)          http://www.myweb.com/~mypage/$1

but after a apachectl configtest, it complains about:
RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files

Any idea how to translate www.mydomain.com to www.myweb.com/~mypage ?

Thanks again,
Sebastiaan


> Erik
>