Thanks Justin. I have tried playing around with rules based on what you posted. My findings are in my reply to Andre, which I hope will be clearer than original, if you would like to take another stab at it. Regards, Oliver > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Pasher [mailto:justinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: December 15, 2009 6:14 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: best way to modify a URL > > Oliver Schoenborn wrote: > > > > I have a simple problem: the URL root for a client website we are > > setting up is http://foo.com/bar/*, but our client wants access to be > > it via http://dodo.foo.com/*, how would I set > > this up? I have used mod_proxy in the past for something similar but > > this doesn’t seem to be applicable here. I think mod_rewrite could > > handle it but it is rather complicated to learn in short time, if > > there is a simpler way or an example somewhere a link would be > > greatly appreciated. Cheers, > > > > Oliver > > > > Could you just create a new VirtualHost container for > http://dodo.foo.com/ and point the DocumentRoot to whatever file system > directory corresponds to http://foo.com/bar/ ? That would probably be > the easiest. > > If not, you can use a RewriteRule to map the traffic. Something like > this (untested): > > RewriteRule ^/bar/(.*) http://dodo.foo.com/$1 [L] > > > -- > Justin Pasher > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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