You could have also just created a vhost section specifically for webservices.apache.org, and placed a single
Redirect / http://ws.apache.org/ but this works too, looks like. Brian On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Daniel Rall wrote: > --- /home/dlr/others.conf.orig Thu Aug 28 12:55:00 2003 > +++ /usr/local/apache2-install/www.apache.org/conf/vhosts/others.conf > Thu Aug > 28 13:03:38 2003 > @@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ > DocumentRoot /x1/www/ws.apache.org > ServerName ws.apache.org > ServerAlias webservices.apache.org ws-new.apache.org > + > + # webservices is a valid alias, but content is accessed via ws. > + RewriteEngine on > + RewriteOptions inherit > + RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} webservices.apache.org [NC] > + RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ws.apache.org$1 [R=permanent,L] > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost *> > > > If there's a way to do this without rewrite rules, I'm all ears. I > couldn't come up with one because of the need to get at the HTTP Host > header. > > Note: This does not avoid the access of the "European Patentability > rules" splash screen which is currently up as the index.html page on all > .apache.org sites. > > > - Dan >
