ChadSEO
msg:1511263 | 8:32 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Assuming you have mod_rewrite installed, you could put the following in an .htaccess file: RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test.html index.html [L] |
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When users attempted to access test.html, they would infact get index.html, without knowing that they were.
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thinkaholic
msg:1511264 | 8:42 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
You can also use frames. Filename: index.html Code
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<html>
<head>
<title>Insert Title Here</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="0" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="mainFrame" src="home.html" scrolling="AUTO" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="NO">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
</body>
</noframes>
</html> Filename: home.html Code
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0; url=http://www.url you want to load.com">
</HEAD>
<BODY> </BODY>
</HTML> Place these two files in the same folder. Hope this helps!
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ChadSEO
msg:1511265 | 8:48 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Note that a savvy user could easily determine they were being redirected with a frame. Using the mod_rewrite, no user would have any idea. It depends on how transparent it needs to be to the user.
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virtuals
msg:1511266 | 9:06 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Thank you both.
But I prefere not to use frames.
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virtuals
msg:1511267 | 9:11 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
My goal is to redirect [sub.example.com...] to http://www.example.com/a/b/
This is the code I used: RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com/a/b/ [L] But the url is also changing.
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jdMorgan
msg:1511268 | 9:19 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
If the two subdomains are separately hosted, then you'll have to proxy the request. Otherwse look carefully at the first response to your thread. It does not include "http://www.example.com" and this makes the difference. Jim
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ChadSEO
msg:1511269 | 9:22 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
There are actually 2 issues with how you're doing that: 1) If you only want to redirect [sub.example.com...] to the other site, and not any subpages (ie [sub.exmample.com...] then make sure you do "RewriteRule ^$ http://www.example.com/a/b [L]". Currently it will do everything, which may or may not be what you want.
2) Anytime you want to serve a page from a different domain, it will actually change the address. The only way to have it not change the address is to serve a page that's available on the current site.
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virtuals
msg:1511270 | 9:50 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
sorry! But you know I'm getting a bit confused,
I want to redirect a virtual sub domain to a folder from the main domain
news.mysite.com to mysite.com/index.php/feed/ The main domain and the sub domain are not hosted separately. Actually the sub domain is only a folder on my root (named "news") Now can I redirect news.mysite.com to mysite.com/index.php/feed/ some how hidden?
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ChadSEO
msg:1511271 | 10:00 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
When defining a site or virtual site in apache, you specify a DocumentRoot. You can do a hidden redirect to any page underneath this that path. If you try to redirect to another site, it will change the address. So news.example.com => www.example.com/index.php/news will change the address. What you want to do is possible if mod_proxy is installed. To check this, find out where your httpd program is, and do a "httpd -l" to list the modules. If mod_proxy is in there, then you can change the end of your RewriteRule line to be [P] instead of [L]. If you do not have mod_proxy, then any page you redirect to has to be available from news.example.com. Hopefully this will clear things up a little
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virtuals
msg:1511272 | 10:06 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Thanks, thank you very much!
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virtuals
msg:1511273 | 10:17 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Ok, this is what I did and its working for me: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} news.example.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!index.php/news/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/news/$1 [L]
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ChadSEO
msg:1511274 | 10:20 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Glad to hear you got it working, mod_rewrite is one of those crazy things that you usually have to guess, test, repeat for a while :)
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jdMorgan
msg:1511275 | 12:03 am on Jul 13, 2005 (gmt 0) |
One thing to note here is that you've done a server-internal *rewrite*; A redirect, by definition, changes the address bar because the server sends a 301 or 302 response to the browser, telling it to initiate a new HTTP request and re-request the desired resource from the new URL provided in the redirect response. A rewrite, on the other hand, happens entirely within the server and within the current HTTP request, and simply substitutes a different file than the one associated with the URL that was requested. It really helps to understand this point, and to use the terms "rewrite" and "redirect" as appropriate. Jim
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virtuals
msg:1511276 | 9:46 pm on Jul 13, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Thanks Jim, good point.
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