I have a URL that I'm trying to redirect back to the homepage on my site. For some reason since it contains hex I can't seem to get it to work.

A sample source URL is:


http://mydomain.com/by/topic/net/pag...age%2F8/page/7

The destination URL is:

http://mydomain.com

I've tried many different things to no avail. Some things include:

RewriteRule ^/(.*)REG_LOGINfromURL(.*) http://mydomain.com [L,R=301]

RewriteRule REG_LOGINfromURL http://mydomain.com [R=301]

Some tests with RewriteMap escape int:escape.

Nothing has worked thus far.

Can someone please help me out?

Redirecting source URLs with REG_LOGINfromURL will get me what I need. Some of my examples work when the source URL does not contain enconded characters, so if the URL was instead http://mydomain.com/by/topic/net/pag...ttp://test.com it would redirect.

I'm running RHEL 4 and Apache/2.0.52.

Thanks,

John

Hi and welcome to LQ,

For this to work, you'll need:
into httpd.conf or a vhost part.
Note that according to the documentation, it should work for both, but it didn't for me (apache 2.2.19). I had to put it into a <VirtualHost>...</VirtualHost> definition
Then you can use your rule (without the leading slash after ^):
Regards

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Thanks bathory! That's exactly what I needed. I was trying to figure it out for a long time to no avail.

I just tested it on a VH and it worked perfectly.

Thank you for your help!

John