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Sean M.
Sean M.

Reputation: 123

Redirect and Rewrite Rule for Apache

I am trying to install a CalDAV client on my apache webserver, and I am having trouble using a combination of redirects and rewrite rules to get a desired url.

The document root for my webserver is /var/www, and the calendar files are stored in /var/www/agendav/web/public. If I go in through my browser at <website>/agendav/web/public/index.php, I have no trouble getting to the interface and using it, so that is not a problem. However, my desired URL for the calendar is <website>/calendar/, instead of having to go down through the agendav folder tree. I have been trying to perform this with a redirect rule, and a rewrite rule, but to very little success. I have found a few other answers here that have gotten me close, such as this one and this one, with a working redirect, but I am still having issues with the rewrite rule. Here is the current solution I have:

# Rules for the Calendar
Redirect "/calendar" "/agendav/web/public"
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "^/agendav"
RewriteRule "^/agendav/web/public/(.*?)$" "/calendar/$1"

My current solution seems a little circular. First, I redirect the user to the agendav folder, then then try to hide the redirect behind a rewrite rule, when it seems that I could just get away with a single rewrite rule. Unfortunately the group I am working for is not big enough to have their own dedicated server manager, and I ended up with the job despite knowing very little about it. Any help to get this would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1062

Answers (1)

Alberto Martinez
Alberto Martinez

Reputation: 2670

You don't need the redirect, you can do it with just a rewrite rule, the problem was that you have the condition and the rule reversed, you were using the real path for the conditions instead of the "virtual" path:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "^/calendar" [NC]
RewriteRule "^calendar/(.*)" "/agendav/web/public/$1"

With this rules all requests for http://yourwebsite/calendar/* are internally served with http://yourwebsite/agendav/web/public/*.

Upvotes: 1

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