You might want to look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule the "'redirect|R [=code]' (force redirect)" section? benji Benji Spencer System Administrator Moody Bible Institute Phone: 312-329-2288 Fax: 312-329-8961 > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Bowman [mailto:ebowman@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:29 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: redirects conundrum > > Ben Spencer wrote: > > The issue is that you are redirecting / to /a/ > > > > You can accomplish what you need with mod_rewrite, though I am not > sure the > > processing order for redirects done with Redirect and those done with > > mod_rewrite so this might involve changing the Redirect permanent > directives > > to mod_rewrite redirect directives. > > > > I don't think we can accomplish what we need with mod_rewrite. We need > /a/ in the address bar to manage cookie domains correctly. We are > redirecting instead of rewriting for client-side reasons. > > If we rewrite instead of redirecting, we end up with big cookies that > get sent with every request to the server. By redirecting to /a/, our > cookies end up with the /a/ path and hence don't get sent with all the > requests to /bar. > > Thanks, > Eric > > -- > Eric Bowman > Boboco Ltd > ebowman@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.boboco.ie/ebowman/pubkey.pgp > +35318394189/+353872801532 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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