| Claire Tucker 2004-07-01, 5:52 pm |
| On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:35:25 +0200, "Cookie Monster"
<cookie.monster@somewhere.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using Apache 1.3 with mod_rewrite and would like to know if it is
>possible to keep the original URL the user entered in the browser address
>bar when performing a rewrite. For example:
>
>RewriteRule ^/home /www/work/home.html [R]
>
>When the user enters http://www.domain.com/home
>
>What happens is they see http://www.domain.com/www/work/home.html in the
>browser.
>
>is there anyway to avoid this?? (I don't want to use frames either)
>
The default with mod_rewrite is to internally redirect, meaning that
the client will not be aware that anything special has happened on the
server.
The [R] flag at the end of your RewriteRule directive is what is
causing it to send a redirect to the browser. If you remove it, it
should work as you want.
However, beware that any relative links in home.html will be resolved
relative to /home, not /www/work/home.html, so you will either need to
use absolute URLs or use a more general rewrite rule which will map
/([a-z]+)\.html$, being careful not to match the destination URL in
the RewriteRule!
Best regards,
-Claire
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