On 3/28/2014 9:39 AM, Brian Gaber wrote:
This is my first attempt at using RewriteRule.
I have about 200 webpages the contain SPS or MENU (in UPPER or lower
case) that I want to send to a webpage on another server.
I thought this might work, but it has not.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (SPS|MENU)
RewriteRule ^/$ http://new-webserver/new-webpage.html [L]
I based this on what I read in
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule and
this example found therein:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla
RewriteRule ^/$ /homepage.max.html [L]
I am fairly familiar with Perl Regular Expression, but
could someone explain what ^/$ does? I understand what ^ and $ do.
Thanks.
Brian
Hello,
As you probably know, the ^ matches the beginning of the text you're
trying to match against. The $ matches the end. The / is simply a
literal / character. So the whole pattern matches a line with just a /
character.
Are you putting the rules into an .htaccess file or in a server
context? If it's .htaccess, the / won't be there to match against
because of the way it matches in a "per-directory" context. From the
linked page: "The removed prefix always ends with a slash, meaning the
matching occurs against a string which /never/ has a leading slash.
Therefore, a /Pattern/ with |^/| never matches in per-directory context."
Try something like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (SPS|MENU) [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://new-webserver/new-webpage.html [L]
http://rewritetester.com/ is a work in progress, but it might be helpful
in showing how mod_rewrite is trying to do the match behind the scenes.
It roughly shows what the server would show if you turned on rewrite
logging for .htaccess rewrites.
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