I'm trying to configure Apache to redirect from sort of a shortcut path
name to a longer path, so that, for example, all requests to
http://foo.example.com/source/directory/file.ext will be redirected to
http://foo.example.com/destination/directory/file.ext. The following
directive accomplishes this:
Redirect /source/ http://foo.example.com/destination/
However, if I do that then the URL scheme, hostname, and port (if
specified) that the client used to access the server will be
unconditionally replaced with http://foo.example.com. I'd like to keep
those first three components of the URL untouched, and just have that
one directory name get changed. So, in addition to
http://foo.example.com/source/directory/file.ext being redirected to
http://foo.example.com/destination/directory/file.ext,
http://foo/source/directory/file.ext would get redirected to
http://foo/destination/directory/file.ext,
http://192.168.1.1/source/directory/file.ext would get redirected to
http://192.168.1.1/source/directory/file.ext, and so on. I've not yet
gotten SSL configured on my server, but if the URL being redirected to
would use the same protocol as the URL being redirected from then that
would be good, too.
According to the mod_alias documentation
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#Redirect>, when
using the Redirect directive "The new /URL/ should be an absolute URL
beginning with a scheme and hostname, but a URL-path beginning with a
slash may also be used, in which case the scheme and hostname of the
current server will be added." That sounds like it does what I want.
However, if I use this:
Redirect /source/ /destination/
...then when I try to restart Apache it indicates that there is a syntax
error and states "Redirect to non-URL". I've tried several variations
but they all give me the same error.
I know I could probably use mod_rewrite to accomplish this but that
seems like a heavyweight solution and an awful lot of work, especially
considering that, at least according to the documentation, Redirect
already does exactly what I want. The Alias directive would probably do
the trick, too, but I specifically want this to be a client-side
redirect, not a server-side redirect. So, is this an error in the
documentation, or am I not understanding the syntax it's expecting when
it says "a URL-path beginning with a slash"?
I'm running Apache on Ubuntu Server 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), which, according
to Ubuntu's package manager (Aptitude), is version 2.2.3-3.2b. I know
that the latest version of Apache is 2.2.4, however it's not yet
available through Aptitude. I didn't see any references to this issue
in the changelog for 2.2.4, but could not running the latest version of
Apache be the reason for this problem as well?
Thanks for the help.
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