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ediego at exchange

Nov 19, 2009, 6:13 AM

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Question about redirects using RewriteMatch

There are some sections of the site that I wanted to setup aliases for so when you browse to www.bus.miami.edu/businessmiami/, www.bus.miami.edu/inthenews/ and www.bus.miami.edu/embapr/ you automatically get redirected to the specified page.

RedirectMatch /businessmiami(/|$) "http://www.bus.miami.edu/news-and-media/publications/busmiami/index.html"
RedirectMatch /inthenews(/|$) "http://www.bus.miami.edu/news-and-media/in-the-news/index.html"
RedirectMatch /embapr(/|$) "http://www.bus.miami.edu/graduate-programs/executive-mba/emba-off-campus/puerto-rico/index.html"

I encountered a problem where I had an image in a folder /_assets/images/businessmiami/cover.jpg. The web page wouldn't load the image because the link was getting redirected because of the RedirectMatch. I'm not sure why it's not working correctly. Anyone have any suggestions.

Thanks,
Emil Diego

phil at philipwigg

Nov 19, 2009, 6:29 AM

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Re: Question about redirects using RewriteMatch [In reply to]

2009/11/19 Diego, Emil <ediego [at] exchange>:
> There are some sections of the site that I wanted to setup aliases for so
> when you browse to www.bus.miami.edu/businessmiami/,
> www.bus.miami.edu/inthenews/ and www.bus.miami.edu/embapr/ you automatically
> get redirected to the specified page.
>
> RedirectMatch /businessmiami(/|$)
> "http://www.bus.miami.edu/news-and-media/publications/busmiami/index.html"
> RedirectMatch /inthenews(/|$)
> "http://www.bus.miami.edu/news-and-media/in-the-news/index.html"
> RedirectMatch /embapr(/|$)
> "http://www.bus.miami.edu/graduate-programs/executive-mba/emba-off-campus/puerto-rico/index.html"
>
> I encountered a problem where I had an image in a folder
> /_assets/images/businessmiami/cover.jpg. The web page wouldn’t load the
> image because the link was getting redirected because of the RedirectMatch.
> I’m not sure why it’s not working correctly. Anyone have any suggestions.

I think a ^ at the beginning of your matching pattern should fix your
problem. For example:-

RedirectMatch ^/businessmiami(/*)$
"http://www.bus.miami.edu/news-and-media/publications/busmiami/index.html"

This means it only matches when /businessmiami is at the start of the
request URI and not in middle of it, as in your image link.

Cheers,
Phil.

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tevans.uk at googlemail

Nov 19, 2009, 6:30 AM

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Re: Question about redirects using RewriteMatch [In reply to]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Diego, Emil
<ediego [at] exchange>wrote:

> There are some sections of the site that I wanted to setup aliases for so
> when you browse to www.bus.miami.edu/businessmiami/,
> www.bus.miami.edu/inthenews/ and www.bus.miami.edu/embapr/ you
> automatically get redirected to the specified page.
>
> RedirectMatch /businessmiami(/|$) "
> http://www.bus.miami.edu/news-and-media/publications/busmiami/index.html"
> RedirectMatch /inthenews(/|$) "
> http://www.bus.miami.edu/news-and-media/in-the-news/index.html"
> RedirectMatch /embapr(/|$) "
> http://www.bus.miami.edu/graduate-programs/executive-mba/emba-off-campus/puerto-rico/index.html
> "
>
> I encountered a problem where I had an image in a folder
> /_assets/images/businessmiami/cover.jpg. The web page wouldnā€™t load the
> image because the link was getting redirected because of the RedirectMatch.
> Iā€™m not sure why itā€™s not working correctly. Anyone have any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> Emil Diego
>

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch

Your image matches the first regexp. If you mean "^/businessmiami(/|)$",
then you need to say so!

Cheers

Tom

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