I have a internal networked webcam (server built in) at IP address 192.168.0.x and I would like it to appear as a directory off my main server. So, if my main server is www.mydomain.com i would like requests for www.mydomain.com/camera to go to the internal webcam server at 192.168.0.x. Ok, so people said I should try mod_rewrite and I did this is the rule:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase 192.168.0.8/
RewriteRule ^/camara(.*) http://192.168.0.8/path/to/$1 [P,L]

but I get this error:
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 893 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files
[FAILED]

What am I doing wrong? please help!

RH9 apache 2.0...

RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files
Is sposed to be injected in a dir's .htaccess file as far as I have read mod_rewrite.html.

Ok, so the rewrite statements go in a .htaccess file and not httpd.conf?

Rewrite rules can be placed in httpd.conf. I've got several systems running in this config. You may need to place them inside of the <Directory> or <VirtualHost> paragraph of the config file. You can turn up the log level with mod_rewrite to get a better understanding of what is happening.

Ok,
will I have to create a virtual host for this to work or is that where the rules just need to be.

Hmmm..ok now I get this error:
httpd failed. The error was: Stopping httpd: [FAILED]

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 1041 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
RewriteBase: argument is not a valid URL
[FAILED]

Hmmm...apache starts when I remove the rewritebase rule....but 404 error trying to get to camera