On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Robert F Hall wrote: > This *should* be simple, but is not working for us. > > We are using Apache 1.3.27. > > We are trying to redirect requests to a particualr host name (an alias) to > the real host name and a specific URL. For example, if > http://specific-app.berkeley.edu is requested, we need it to be > redirected > to http://hostname.berkeley.edu/specific-context/index.jsp > > We have tried the following in httpd.conf and no joy (with and w/o > 'index.jsp') > > <VirtualHost specific-app.berkeley.edu> > RedirectMatch /$ > http://hostname.berkeley.edu/specific-context/index.jsp > Redirect /index.jsp > http://hostname.berkeley.edu/specific-context/index.jsp > Redirect /index.html > http://hostname.berkeley.edu/specific-context/index.jsp > </VirtualHost> > > Thanks, > Robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Isn't this better handled by setting this VirtualHost's DocumentRoot to <path-to-specific-content> and DirectoryIndex to 'index.jsp'? Then you don't buy the extra overhead of a redirect. -- Craig Dunigan IS Technical Services Specialist (I don't know what it means, either) Middleware - Enterprise Info Systems - Department of Info Technology University of Wisconsin, Madison opinions expressed are my own, not the University's --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx