To: UNC Linux Users Group <unclug AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [unclug] Redirect 80 ---> 443 with Apache?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:22:27 -0500
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, John Reuning wrote:
| The main thing that rewriting offers over redirecting is the transparent
| translation of urls from http to https, right? Can the Redirect
| directive take patters and insert them via $1, $2, etc?
Yep, sure can. By default that directive already passes everything on
after the match. So if you had a request of...
Even with a rewrite rule if you tell it to redirect to a new site, it is
NOT transparent. The browser must know this and show it in the address
bar.
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Joe Morris, Web Systems Manager
Academic Technology and Networks
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Re: [unclug] Redirect 80 ---> 443 with Apache?
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