Look into either redirectmatch if no mod_rewrite or rewriterule with mod_redirect

On 17 Aug 2010 18:14, "Craig White" craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

Is there some easy way to rewrite just the base URL to another URL but leave all other URL's unmolested?

i.e.

http://www.example.com = rewrite to another URL

http://www.example.com/files = deliver from the assigned subdirectory

obviously this... Redirect / http://www.other_url.com redirects everything

and I don't want /files to be redirected

Craig

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On Tuesday, August 17, 2010, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:

Is there some easy way to rewrite just the base URL to another URL but leave all other URL's unmolested?

i.e.

http://www.example.com = rewrite to another URL

http://www.example.com/files = deliver from the assigned subdirectory

obviously this... Redirect / http://www.other_url.com redirects everything

and I don't want /files to be redirected

Craig

I think matching on ^/$ with mod_rewrite will do what you want.

On 8/17/2010 12:14 PM, Craig White wrote:

Is there some easy way to rewrite just the base URL to another URL but leave all other URL's unmolested?

i.e.

http://www.example.com = rewrite to another URL

http://www.example.com/files = deliver from the assigned subdirectory

obviously this... Redirect / http://www.other_url.com redirects everything

and I don't want /files to be redirected

If you are using RewriteRules, you can use the [PT,L] flags to force matches to be handled immediately without changes or checking for additional matches, so: RewriteRule ^/files - [PT,L] would make everything under /files be handled from the original location regardless of subsequent rewrites. ^/* would probably work too.

Then you can use RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.other_url.com [R,L] for the redirect. This approach makes it fairly easy to mix and match content from old/new locations during a transition. Or you can proxy some pages with the P flag if you don't want to expose the new location.