Hi,

I've moved a site from one location to another, and am using modRewrite
to direct requests to the old address to the new one as follows:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.+) http://new.example.net/bounce/$1 [R,L]

When I visit the old site http://old.example.org/bounce/ things work fine.

If I visit it without the trailing slash
(http://old.example.org/bounce), it tries to redirect to
http://new.example.net/bounce//var/www/old/bounce - which doesn't exist.

Would anyone be able to suggest how I could correct this?

Many thanks.

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:45:39 +0100,
Chris <write@~tochris~.~c0m~> posted:

> I've moved a site from one location to another, and am using modRewrite
> to direct requests to the old address to the new one as follows:
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^(.+) http://new.example.net/bounce/$1 [R,L]

You'd really want to also set proper HTTP error response codes, too. Such
as 301 (moved permanently) (use "R=301" instead of just "R"). I believe
the default redirection is a "temporary" redirection instruction (at least
my Apache manual says so).

That way, any compliant robots will update their information to the new
address (subsequent requests will be made directly to the new address, and
the old address will eventually be ignored). Otherwise, they're forever
accessing your old location, and should the old location become defunct
they won't be accessing the new one, at all.

See: <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html>

> When I visit the old site http://old.example.org/bounce/ things work fine.
>
> If I visit it without the trailing slash
> (http://old.example.org/bounce), it tries to redirect to
> http://new.example.net/bounce//var/www/old/bounce - which doesn't exist.
>
> Would anyone be able to suggest how I could correct this?

Another specific rule for the omitted slash, perhaps? Though it sounds
odd. Doesn't the redirection have to be to a URI not file path?

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