RE: URL forwarding

["Price, Erik" <eprice@ptc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastiaan [mailto:S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL]
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:46 AM
> To: Price, Erik
> Cc: Sebastiaan; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: URL forwarding
> > > > 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 ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Doesn't that mean that you need to use it in a /.htaccess 
> file?  Are you modifying httpd.conf or a .htaccess file?
> >
> I am modifying httpd.conf. So you mean I should add the three 
> lines above
> in the .htaccess?

Yes, the error message you got ("RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files") is referring to .htaccess file.  Put the rule in a .htaccess file and put that file in the docroot of the virtual host.


Erik