[nylug-talk] OT: need sysadmin advice about apache?

[Kevin Coyner]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:03:24AM -0500, R. Mariotti wrote......

> I have a client running multiple apache 1.13 servers on multiple
> linux systems.  Due to something that was published to their
> customers I must make incoming requests for a specific URL be
> redirected to a different URL to display a different page on a
> different server.
>
> I have played with some redirection in the http.conf file WITHOUT
> success, it doesn't work.  Therefore, I'm asking for other linux
> sysadmins familiar with this to PLEASE post what hopefully is some
> simple advise as to what to code to accomplish this?

Use mod_rewrite.

Extremely powerful and very flexible, but it has a learning curve.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html

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