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From: "Brian Hughes '89" <brianvh@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:54:13 -0400
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] How to make apache to fix the url in the browser?

On May 20, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Fl=E1vio Henrique wrote:
> I dont want to make any redirection ok? I just want this:
>
> on my internal webserver I have egroupware installed =20
> (www.egroupware.org)
> my clients, when access my egroupware site, see, in the address bar =20=

> the url:
> http://www.myserver.com/egroupware/index.php?=20
> menuaction=3Demail.uicompose.compose&fldball[folder]=3DInbox
>
> how to make apache (if this is in apache) send only the =20
> "www.myserver.com" to
> browser? no matter where the user goes or which link the user clicks.

OK... so what you want to do is "fix" the URL that's displayed in the =20=

user's browser, no matter what page they are on, or how deep into to =20
the www.myserver.com site? If so, then this has nothing to do with =20
Apache, per-se.

What it sounds like you want to do is wrap the entry page to the =20
egroupware site in a Frameset that has 2 frame rows: 1 that is 100% the =20=

height of the window and the second that is * (which is really 0 =20
height). You set this frameset up as the index.html page of =20
www.myserver.com and set the HREF of frame 1 to point to:

/egroupware/index.php?=20
menuaction=3Demail.uicompose.compose&fldball[folder]=3DInbox

Or whatever the user's "home page" would be. The egroupware site =20
doesn't know it's being framed, so it simply treats the top frame as =20
the "window", which is what causes the browser to never change the =20
displayed URL from "http://www.myserver.com/". Incidentally, this is =20
effectively what Google does for their GMail system. No matter where =20
you go in your GMail account, the URL is always =20
https://gmail.google.com/gmail.

The trick with this, since you're fooling both the browser and =20
egroupware, is when there's a link that takes you outside the =20
egroupware system, it too, will display in the main frame and look to =20=

the browser as though it was "http://www.myserver.com/". That might not =20=

be what you want. Google handles this by modifying every non-GMail <a> =20=

tag with a target=3D"_blank" attribute that forces a new browser window =20=

to open when the link is clicked.

Again, this has nothing to do with your Apache settings. You can use =20
Apache, with mod_rewrite, to cause one website to look like it comes =20
from a different URL, but that's not the same thing as fixing a single =20=

URL in the user's browser, no matter where they click in a site.

-Brian


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