On 9/6/07, James Ralston <qralston+ml.apache-httpd-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now, say that (for whatever reason) we want to redirect all requests > for any URL-path except / (root) to the root. > > Or you could do it using mod_rewrite: > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$ > RewriteRule .* http://localhost/ [redirect=permanent,last] > > But either approach will, in fact, fail: *all* URL-paths will return a > redirect to the root, including the root itself. I'm sure you could get it to work with mod_rewrite. The no-subrequest [NS] flag might work, or you could add a RewriteCond to exclude the index.html or you could use a RewriteCond on %{THE_REQUEST}. In the case of mod_rewrite it is certainly desired behavior that it act also on the aliased/expanded form of the path. If it didn't do this, many interesting uses of mod_rewrite wouldn't be possible. For mod_alias, I agree it would be clearer if it only acted on the raw path, not the aliased/expanded one. 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