| Rewrite - not working
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Andrew Thomas
msg:1522111 | 3:16 pm on Sep 28, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Im new to apache, but am trying to set setup 301 pernament redirects. eg www.widgets.com
and www.red-widgets.com
both redirect to www.widgets.co.uk I used the following code: RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^widgets.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^red-widgets.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [widgets.co.uk...] [R,L] when run, the site just says "forbidden" Is the above code correct?
Without asking my hosts, is there a way to see which modules/directives are running on the server? (code to detect them?) thanks
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jdMorgan
msg:1522112 | 3:36 pm on Sep 28, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Andrew, I'm assuming you've placed the code in .htaccess in your Web root directory. If so, try the following:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^widgets\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?red-widgets\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.widgets.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
Options +FollowSymLinks or Options +SymLinkIfOwnerMatch is required in order to use mod_rewrite. The domain names should not be end-anchored in order to prevent rule failure in case a port number is appended, e.g. "widgets.com:80/index.html". This is a relatively simple rewrite, so if it does not work, then it's likely that mod_rewrite is not enabled on your server -- Check your server error log to see what it says. Jim
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Andrew Thomas
msg:1522113 | 4:22 pm on Sep 28, 2004 (gmt 0) |
thanks, that worked fine
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Andrew Thomas
msg:1522114 | 8:21 am on Oct 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
I understand most of this, RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^widgets\.com [NC,OR] but why is the \ before the .com thanks
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jdMorgan
msg:1522115 | 12:45 pm on Oct 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
> but why is the \ before the .com Because the period has special meaning to the regular-expressions pattern-matching language used in mod_rewrite. Without a preceding the slash, a period in a pattern means "match any character." Any character that has special meaning in regular expressions must be escaped if used inside a pattern. In this case, it is used to specify that you want a literal period to match, and not just any character. More info is available in the regular-expressions tutorial cited in our charter. Jim
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