[ic] Redirection of domain name

[Howard Lowndes]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Stefan Hornburg wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:05:57 +1100 (EST)
> Howard Lowndes <lannet@lannet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I need to have a simple domain name for my clients to use, such as 
> > shop.mydomain.com
> > and I want to redirect that to 
> > shop.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myshop
> > because the latter is a lot harder for clients to remember.
> > 
> > I have tried putting a redirect in apache in the virtual host
> > configuration for shop.mydomain.com such as
> > redirect permanent / http://shop.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myshop/
> > but that doesn't work as it continually loops until apache decides that 
> > there are too many redirects.
> 
> You advised it to loop !

Tell me about it :(

> 
> Try:
> 
> RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http:/shop.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myshop/

Tks, that worked a treat.  I had to tweak a couple of variables in IC and 
in httpd.conf, but I got there.

BTW, the site is shop.orientstar.com.au

-- 
Howard.
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