What is the difference between redirect and rewrite?

"Chongwei Chen" <chongwei.chen@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:39:08 +0800

For Apache server, sometimes I see people use very simple redirect rule such
as:

redirect 301 / http://www.yourdomain.com/

But sometimes use a very complex rewrite rule to implement a redirect such
as:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

What is the difference between the two, does the second one more advanced
and better than the first one?

Thanks

Alan

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