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On Tuesday 09 August 2005 16:26, Cameron wrote: > This is a simple one but I am brainfarting so forgive the newbieness of it. > > I want traffic to start at http://www.webpage.com/destination > And be re-directed to http://www.webpage.com/folder/destination.php > Instead of using mod_rewrite or other apache options, I use a simple index.html that redirects the browser the desired location. Note that this example uses a 5 second delay, which you of course can change. This is also platform and webserver agnostic. -- begin index.html <html> <head> <title>Some site, redirecting ... </title> <h1> Redirecting you to final destination <a href="" style="text-decoration:underline">>Click here to proceed</a> or wait 5 seconds. <!-- <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="5; url=""> --> </head> </html> -- end index.html > I think I finally found the right spot in the httpd.conf file and entered: > * RewriteRule /destination http://www.webpage.com/folder/destination.php > > I then did a 'restart httpd' but the result seemed to imply that I needed > to use one of the switches. Nothing looked appropriate to me. > > I then did a 'apachectl start' and enter in my passphrase. No errors at > this point but when I try to view that site, it says Redirect limit for > this url exceeded. Unable to load requested page. This may be caused by > cookies that are blocked. > > My questions are: > 1) Did I actually do the right thing i the first place? > 2) Did I miss anything? (Permissions, etc.) > 3) Did I edit the wrong file? (httpd.conf) Or the wrong section? > 4) Anything else you could add? > > By the way, this is apache (can't recall version) running on redhat 9 (I > think) > > Thanks in advance > > Cameron > > |
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