Re: URL forwarding

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

Hi,

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Steve Haslam wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:00:09AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> Don't use RewriteBase in httpd.conf. It's only supplied for use in .htaccess
> files which are processed so late in the request that the module can't
> properly determine the correct base for rewritng.
>
> If you have a VirtualHost for www.mydomain.com, just put the
> rewriteengine/rewriterule in there. If you're not using VirtualHosts (argh),
> try:
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond   %{HTTP_HOST} =www.mydomain.com
> RewriteRule   ^(.+)        http://www.myweb.com/~mypage/$1 [R,L]
>
hey, that works too ;-) Thanks!

Greetz,
Sebastiaan


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