apache rewrite

[Shahzad Chohan]

Hi Chris

Many Thanks for that.

Whats the difference between a rewrite and a redirect. I mean is there
a reason as to why I need a 301 ( I was just told to issue a 301 by
someone else). If I don't put an R in on the rewrite whats the default
return? Can I also issue an R=404?

Please excuse my ignorance

Thanks
Shaz

On 5/20/05, Chris Grau <chris at chrisgrau.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:13:14PM +0100, Shahzad Chohan wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Wonder if you can help me.
> >
> > I have a url where I want to redirect everything and return a 301. But
> > I want the base url and /index.html
> >
> > to not redirect.
> >
> > Can someone please explain how I can do this?
> 
> That should be pretty easy with mod_rewrite.  Just off the top of my
> head:
> 
>   RewriteEngine On
>   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
>   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.html$
>   RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
> 
> The two RewriteCond directives tell mod_rewrite not to execute the rule
> for those conditions (the matches are negated by the !).  Everything
> else is redirected with status 301 by the RewriteRule.
> 
> For more info on how this works, the mod_rewrite document is pretty
> informative:
> 
>   http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
>   http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
> 
> > Thanks
> > Shaz
> 
> -chris
> 
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