Hello,

Apache 2.0.52
RHEL 4

We're hosting multiple websites. Our directory structure is like this:

/var/www/html/sites/dept1/dept1_group1/index.html
....
dept2/dept2_group1/index.html

The DocumentRoot is /var/www/html/sites.

The customer prefers short URL and therefore wants
http://www.dept.some.edu/dept1_group1 to work even though their real
web pages are stored in /var/www/html/sites/dept1/dept1_group1/ which
is not right under the DocumentRoot. So we did redirect

'http://www.dept.some.edu/dept1_group1' =>
'/dept1/dept1_group1/index.html'

The redirection works fine. Now the customer came back asking if the
pages can be displayed without changing to the long URL at all. Is
that possible? I called it transparent redirection because they want
it to take place behind the sences without visitors noticing any URL
change.

I'd appreciate any ideas or thoughts.

Thanks,

Bing

On 8/24/2006 5:56 PM, dubing@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Apache 2.0.52
> RHEL 4
>
> We're hosting multiple websites. Our directory structure is like this:
>
> /var/www/html/sites/dept1/dept1_group1/index.html
> ....
> dept2/dept2_group1/index.html
>
> The DocumentRoot is /var/www/html/sites.
>
> The customer prefers short URL and therefore wants
> http://www.dept.some.edu/dept1_group1 to work even though their real
> web pages are stored in /var/www/html/sites/dept1/dept1_group1/ which
> is not right under the DocumentRoot. So we did redirect
>
> 'http://www.dept.some.edu/dept1_group1' =>
> '/dept1/dept1_group1/index.html'
>
> The redirection works fine. Now the customer came back asking if the
> pages can be displayed without changing to the long URL at all. Is
> that possible? I called it transparent redirection because they want
> it to take place behind the sences without visitors noticing any URL
> change.

Use mod_rewrite:

RewriteRule ^/dept([0-9]+)_group([0-9]+)/(.*)$
/dept$1/dept$1_group$2/$3 [L]

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