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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] redirect vs. rewrite
archived-at: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:07:17 -0000


Also note that the first one will always redirect to the root of the 
target domain, but the second one will redirect to the same page on the 
target domain.

First one:
(taking Daniel's comment in to account)

/example redirects to http://www.domain.com/

Second one:

/example redirects to http://www.domain.com/example

First one is using mod_alias[1], second one is using mod_rewrite[2]. Mod 
rewrite has more flexibility and can handle complex situations, for 
simple cases mod_alias is easier to use.

1 - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_alias.html
2 - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

On 26/06/2017 14:29, Daniel wrote:
> Note the first one (the redirect) will probably redirect incorrectly,
> target should end with a trailing slash.
> 
> Golden rule: if souce ends in trailing slash, target must also end in
> trailing slash.
> 
> 2017-06-26 21:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:16 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm using apache 2.4. What is the difference between these lines?
>>>
>>> Redirect permanent / http://www.domain.com
>>>      RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]
>>
>> Nothing really, when you add the 'R' flag you're asking mod_rewrite to
>> redirect instead of performing an internal rewrite of the URL or file
>> path.
>>
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