Rewrite rule to keep old url after changing username

Jan F Steinbrener <j.steinbrener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:55:21 -0500

Hi,

during my recent re-install of our server (it is running Apache 2.2)  

i changed my username from old_uname to new_uname. I would like that  

my webaddress is still accessible under the old address

http://host/~old_uname

Looking through the docs I decided to go with the rewrite routine. I  

was trying the following in /etc/apache2/mods-available:

created file called rewrite.conf and added:
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteRule ^/~old_uname(.*) /~new_uname$1 [L,PT]

created two softlinks in mods-enabled. I find this not to work after  

a restart of the webserver. Now I am wondering, is this the right way  

of implementing the rewrite rule, i.e. in a file rewrite.conf in mods- 

available or could there be a problem with the userdir.conf module  

that I have also enabled or maybe something else?

Many thanks, Jan

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