m i l e s wrote:
If I have the following series of urls: webmail.theusersdomain.com webmail.somedomain.com webmail.myuserdomain.com webmail.etc.comInstead of adding hostdirections in the apache conf file....I was thinking a mod_rewrite rule would do the trick rather nicely....what I thought of was this:RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^webmail\.[a-z]+\.com$ webmail\.[a-z]+\.com\:7080/scripts/ webmail.exe
Part of the reason mod_rewrite is such a bear is that it performs (at least) two completely different functions:
--internal redirects - where the URL in the user's browser stays the same but the http response come from someplace other than the directory/file portion of the url BUT still comes from the same domain (and server).
--external redirects - where the http response is a redirect telling the browser to go to another URL completely. (Thus the URL changes in the user's browser.)
What you are proposing above is an external redirect. You are changing the domain name portion of the URL (by changing the port). You'll have to show that port number in the user's browser. I have a hunch you were trying to avoid that.
(Your RewriteRule is also in error:First of all: The left hand side can't refer to a domain name but only to the file portion of the URL. The right hand side can include a domain name, and doing do makes it a redirect. (To indicate a domain name, you use either the 'http://' prefix or use a [R] redirect directive at the end.)
Secondly, even if you could include domain names, your regex is way off: I think you meant to use regular parentheses () around the second level domain portion of the URL so you could reuse it in the right hand side. And the right hand side should not be a regular expression at all but should use a $1 symbol to show where the parenthesized portion from the left hand side should go.
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And lastly, would this rule live in the httpd.conf file or would this rule live somewhere else ????
It can live in either the httpd.conf or the .htaccess files.
Or if I miss my guess would this rule have to live in a .htaccess file in EVERY domain_directory that I host ?
And remember that you are defining new third level domains for each of your second level domains. That may require some DNS work.
Within Apache, you could have a single virtual server for all your webmail third level domains:
ServerName webmail.domain1.com ServerAlias webmail.domain2.com etc. Then a single rewrite directive could apply to all those domains.But it sounds like you are running your webmail on a different instance of Apache, so you will have to do external redirects.
If you are using the different port to address a second host server where your mail server lives, bear in mind that webmail (or at least Squirrelmail) doesn't have to run on the same machine as the mailserver.
Sorry to be so long winded. Hope that helps. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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