On 6/28/06, Rob Wilkerson <r.d.wilkerson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First let me say that I hope this is the proper mailing list for my question. If that's not the case, please redirect me and I'll be happy to post there. I'm taking over an application that currently includes an Apache module written to redirect web traffic to one or more virtual hosts. In looking at what it does, I'm wondering whether I can accomplish the same thing with mod_rewrite and not have to worry about: 1) rebuilding the module for each version of Apache and 2) compiling for multiple versions on multiple platforms (windows, linux, solaris - currently). Here's what the module does (and, consequently, what I need mod_rewrite to do): 1. Operate within one or more virtual hosts, but not necessarily within others 2. By default, redirect all incoming traffic to a single point of entry (e.g. mylandingpage.php) which will then redirect as needed 3. Forward the originally requested URL to the landing page (this is the part that might be the killer). Our current module writes a request header with this info that is read by the landing page.
What do you mean by "writes a request header"? Is it proxying the requests, or redirecting them? It can't modify the client's request headers if it is redirecting. You can certainly do this easily by passing the original URL in the query string, which would be visible to the client. If that is acceptable, then I don't see anything here that can't be done by mod_rewrite. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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