> What happens if you just replace you last RewriteRule by > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.co.uk/portal [R=301] > > By doing the [R=301], you are forcing a 301 response back to the browser > anyway, so you might as well make it explicit, and it should not add any > extra overhead. > > Otherwise, the easiest solution would be to have your firewall forward to > port 80, not 8001, and change your VirtualHost to use 80. > (And maybe add another listening IP address to your server, if you need that > to distinguish with another existing Apache instance on port 80).
Thanks very much for your help. I think I'll just do as you suggest and redirect explicitly. The rest of the infrastructure is outside of my control but I think I'll suggest they change it. Cheers, Phil. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
