>Number: 1040 >Category: mod_alias >Synopsis: Can't redirect / >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 22 05:30:02 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2.3 >Environment: Linux 1.2.20 (and sparc-solaris), doesn't matter. >Description: All the documents in our server are located *under* the URL http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/math/ (that is, all our documents are prefixed by math), because we are part of a network of servers, and we own the "math"-part of the server. So, if we get a request for the root document http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/ we cannot serve it, rather we must redirect this request to the master http server. Until now, we used the CERN server for this using the directive redirect / http://www.uni-muenster.de/ This does not work with apache, because it assumes that the fake URL (the first argument of redirect) is always the beginning of a path, so if we use the above directive, /whatever will be redirected to http://www.uni-muenster.de/whatever and we will never get a chance to serve one single document. (Actually, I'd really like to redirect "Everything but /math" to our master server). >How-To-Repeat:
>Fix: Don't know. There should be a way of specifying that the fake path is to be taken literally, probably by adding a $-sign to the path >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
