apache rewrite

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 23.05.2005 schrieb Shahzad Chohan um 11:11:

Don't top-post please.

> 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?

> Shaz

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

Read about the HTTP status codes. You then hopefully will understand why
404 would be the wrong return code. 301 is typically used for a
permanent movement and 302 for a temporary one. You could use 410 i.e.
for telling search engines that a webcontent is gone and should be
removed from the search engine index. But that is done by using "G"
instead of "R", or even "F" for a 403. Please read the mod_rewrite
documentation carefully.

Deferrences between redirecting and rewriting are described here:

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~sammons/docs/redirect.php

Redirecting use mod_alias while rewriting uses mod_rewrite. The
mod_rewrite possibilities are much more powerful and can handle advanced
condition definitions.

Alexander


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