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Re: Htaccess file for redirect?
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Ivan Shmakov
Sep 21, 2012, 12:17:30 AM9/21/12
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>>>>> Andrew S <andr...@gmal.cmo> writes:
[Cross-posting to news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc.]
[...]
> Supposedly I have to edit a '.htaccess' file, but I don't know where
> it is located on the server. Where should it be? In the default
> public_html or www folder or in one of the server folders?
The directory the site files are located in.
> So I need to redirect 5 URLs. How do I do that? How about this:
> (with htaccess on first server)
> #With mod_rewrite
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^/subdir/(.*) http://www.newwebsite.com/$1 [R,L]
> Is that last bit correct? Is there anything else I need, like to do
> I need to close that statement?
As stated, this problem could be solved by a RedirectMatch [1]
directive, like:
## with mod_alias
RedirectMatch permanent ^/example/(.*) http://example.com/$1
[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch
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[Cross-posting to news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc.]
[...]
> Supposedly I have to edit a '.htaccess' file, but I don't know where
> it is located on the server. Where should it be? In the default
> public_html or www folder or in one of the server folders?
The directory the site files are located in.
> So I need to redirect 5 URLs. How do I do that? How about this:
> (with htaccess on first server)
> #With mod_rewrite
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^/subdir/(.*) http://www.newwebsite.com/$1 [R,L]
> Is that last bit correct? Is there anything else I need, like to do
> I need to close that statement?
As stated, this problem could be solved by a RedirectMatch [1]
directive, like:
## with mod_alias
RedirectMatch permanent ^/example/(.*) http://example.com/$1
[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch
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FSF associate member #7257
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