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Rewrite URL in apache

Hi all, can i ask for your help? I'm in trouble in setting up my vhost in apache. Currently my site is up and running, my problem is that I can't get it to short url. Here's the scenario:

a. I have a website running on my server currently on vhost on port 80 and 443. Here is the config file:

Code:

    <VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerName wiki.company.com

        ServerAdmin infra@company.com

        ServerAlias wiki wiki.company.com



        DocumentRoot /var/www/html



        Redirect / https://wiki.company.com/



    </VirtualHost>



    <VirtualHost *:443>

        ServerName wiki.company.com

        ServerAdmin infra@company.com



        ProxyPreserveHost On

        ProxyRequests Off

        SSLProxyEngine off

        SSLEngine on

        SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1

        SSLCipherSuite ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM

        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt

        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.key



        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        RedirectMatch ^/$ /wiki/



      ################################## 

        RewriteEngine On

        RewriteRule ^/?view(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wiki/index.php [L]

        RewriteRule ^/?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wiki/index.php [L]

      ##################################

      <Directory /var/www/html/wiki>

            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

            AllowOverride None

            Order allow,deny

            Allow from all

        </Directory>



    </VirtualHost>

b. Whenever i am going to visit the login page which is https://wiki.company.com/view/Special:UserLogin. I want to rewrite it's URL to display only https://wiki.company.com/login or just https://wiki.company.com/. But my RewriteRule fails. This is what i have added to :*443

Code:

RewriteRule ^/view/Special:UserLogin(.*) https://wiki.company.com/ [R,L]

Hope i explain myself clearly on this. Thanks

Hi,

Quote:

I don't know how it's failing, but please note that you have another rule:

Quote:

RewriteRule ^/?view(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wiki/index.php [L]

that rewrites a URL starting with "/view..." to "/var/www/html/wiki/index.html"

Regards

you can add an alias entry for view/Special:UserLogin

Code:

Alias / view/Special:UserLogin

Code:

Alias /login view/Special:UserLogin

restart your apache server

Quote:

Originally Posted by deep27ak (Post 4793914)

you can add an alias entry for view/Special:UserLogin

Code:

Alias / view/Special:UserLogin

Code:

Alias /login view/Special:UserLogin

restart your apache server

No you can't.
Alias is used to map a directory outside the DocumentRoot to some URL. In this case Special:UserLogin surely does not look like a directory name, so you cannot alias it to something else.

bathory pointed out the issue,
adding a Rewrite Condition before the ambiguous Rewrite Rule will solve the issue.

Quote:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/view/Special:UserLogin
RewriteRule ^/?view(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wiki/index.php [L]