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RedBassett
RedBassett

Reputation: 3587

Mod_rewrite Redirecting

I think I finally got the basics of mod_rewrite figured out, but I am still having some trouble.

I want my hypothetical site to direct (almost) all traffic to home.html, which will parse the SEO URLs. This means that /home, /home.html, /index.html, /something/somethingelse/gobledegook all go to home.html (don't worry about passing GET variables, the home file will parse the entire URL later).

Here is the current setup:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/something/I/want/to/preserve.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home.html [L]

This works brilliantly. Except it works as a redirect: the URL in browser becomes "/home.html". How do I load the home.html page but keep the URL the same?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 232

Answers (3)

Michael Marr
Michael Marr

Reputation: 2099

You should be able to simply add the P flag to your RewriteRule. See: Apache mod_rewrite Manual

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home.html [PL]

Upvotes: 1

Carsten
Carsten

Reputation: 18446

Simple, use the passthrough (PT) flag:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home.html [PT,L]

Upvotes: 2

TheEmeritus
TheEmeritus

Reputation: 419

I think you should try to replace your rule with this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.staging.example.com
RewriteRule ^$ /abc-sp.html [PT,L]

Note that the "blank URL-path" test is now done in the rule, so the original RewriteCond is not needed.

The [PT] tells mod_rewrite to leave the output in "URL-format" instead of converting it to a filepath. Thus the rewritten URL-request can then be picked up by mod_proxy and sent to your back-end.

It that doesn't work, then use the [P] flag instead of [PT], and specify the URL of your back-end resource, e.g. "http:/ /192.168.0.2:8080/abc-sp.jsp". The [P] flag will generate a reverse-proxy through-put, just as your likely-existing config-file mod_alias code does.

Note that the code above is for .htaccess or for use in a config file within a container. If used outside any container or .htaccess, add a leading slash to the RewriteRule pattern.

Hope my answer helps! :~)

Upvotes: 1

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