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Martin Moriarty wrote:
>
> Hi there
> Ive apache installed on a suse linux 7.2 box, and im about to declare the
> web server live this week. One problem i have though is in the url
> redirection . In the example below, j.burns directory no longer exists and
> is now held in the direcotry john ( ie the public_html direcotry of the user
> johnny). The directory johnny exists and the destination url exists. However
> if I try the redirect, I get no erroe after restarting. If I try to access
> j.burns it cant find it, and theses no error in the error log. Is there
> anything else I need to do for the redirection to be enabled

> #
> Redirect http://server2/~j.burns http://server2/~johnny

You're not using "Redirect" correctly. The first argument is supposed to
be a decoded URL-path, i.e. the file that your server gets after it
decodes the URL. The second argument is a full URL. So, you should put:

Redirect /~j.burns http://server2/~johnny

Rgds,

Owen Boyle.

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works a treat Many thanks
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: obo@bourse.ch [mailto:obo@bourse.ch]
Sent: 29 January 2002 11:06
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: redirecting urls


Martin Moriarty wrote:
>
> Hi there
> Ive apache installed on a suse linux 7.2 box, and im about to declare the
> web server live this week. One problem i have though is in the url
> redirection . In the example below, j.burns directory no longer exists and
> is now held in the direcotry john ( ie the public_html direcotry of the
user
> johnny). The directory johnny exists and the destination url exists.
However
> if I try the redirect, I get no erroe after restarting. If I try to access
> j.burns it cant find it, and theses no error in the error log. Is there
> anything else I need to do for the redirection to be enabled

> #
> Redirect http://server2/~j.burns http://server2/~johnny

You're not using "Redirect" correctly. The first argument is supposed to
be a decoded URL-path, i.e. the file that your server gets after it
decodes the URL. The second argument is a full URL. So, you should put:

Redirect /~j.burns http://server2/~johnny

Rgds,

Owen Boyle.

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