Rainer Jung wrote: > There was a short discussion about the use of RedirectMatch vs. Redirect > on #asfinfra today, which revealed that in many cases the former is used > where the latter would be simpler and more efficient. > > One notable example is the .htaccess file of the incubator. It has > almost 100 entries of the form: > > RedirectMatch Permanent ^/TLP(/.*)?$ http://TLP.apache.org$1 > > which should be written instead as: > > Redirect Permanent /TLP http://TLP.apache.org > > The addition of trailing path components is automatic for "Redirect". It > will also only apply to "/TLP" and "/TLP/something", but not to > "/TLPXYZ" as is wanted here. > > A simplified form of the current incubator .htaccess can be found at: > > http://people.apache.org/~rjung/incubator/htaccess > > the corresponding patch at: > > http://people.apache.org/~rjung/incubator/htaccess.patch > > I didn't change the RedirectMatch for oozie, because that one also > matches /oozieXYZ and I can't decide whether that's actually an error or > needed behavior. > > If you like it go ahead and apply it to the .htaccess in your svn tree. > Note that I changed the file name from ".htaccess" to "htaccess" in > order to make it available.
Done in r1420008. Thanks for your contribution. -David > Regards, > > Rainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
