On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/crazy-advanced-mod_rewrite-tutorial.html > > is a link to a tutorial which mentions following use of ReWriteRule is wrong. > > RewriteEngine On > RewriteBase / > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.askapache\.com$ [NC] > RewriteRule .+ http://www.askapache.com%{REQUEST_URI} > > I could not understand what is the mistake in the above rule? > Can some one point what is the error which the tutorial is trying to tell. Who can guess if that silly page meant either of these subtle issues with the recipe: *) ".+" in .htaccess won't match a request for "/", but I doubt that's the operative part of the exercise. *) You Should not redirect if HTTP_HOST is empty, for HTTP/1.0 clients, or you might loop. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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