Redirect setup question.

I've been doing some research on the best way to do this and so far
I've found the best information here so before I make a chance to our
web server I thought I'd run it by you before I do it just to make
sure I've understood what you've been saying. (And to make sure I've
understood what I've read).

We used to have an IIS server hosting all our web pages. Due to all
the security problems we've had (big suprise) we've moved the main
pages to our new Apache Linux Server. Due to bueracracy though not
all the pages are being moved over to the new server. When the switch
was made the window's machine dns original.dns.example got moved to
the linux box and the windows machine was assigned a new dns
new.dns.example.

I believe in order for someone looking for the page
original.dns.example/research to get redirected to
new.dns.example/research all I need to do is add the line:

redirect permanent /research http://new.dns.example/research

This way if someone is looking for
original.dns.example/research/images/image1.jpg they will
automatically be redirected to
new.dns.example/research/images/image1.jpg.


Am I understanding this correctly and will this work to redirect all
the subdirectories and files like I have in the example or am I way
off base?

Thanks for all your help,
Mel

Melissa <delpayne@yahoo.com> wrote:
> redirect permanent /research http://new.dns.example/research
> This way if someone is looking for
> original.dns.example/research/images/image1.jpg they will
> automatically be redirected to
> new.dns.example/research/images/image1.jpg.

Correct. What is going to happen is that the browser will receive
a response that will make him reform the query to the new server,
actually leaving the old one. I'm not sure if this is what you
really want.

Davide

Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message news:<bragle$182am$1@ID-18487.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Melissa <delpayne@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > redirect permanent /research http://new.dns.example/research
> > This way if someone is looking for
> > original.dns.example/research/images/image1.jpg they will
> > automatically be redirected to
> > new.dns.example/research/images/image1.jpg.
>
> Correct. What is going to happen is that the browser will receive
> a response that will make him reform the query to the new server,
> actually leaving the old one. I'm not sure if this is what you
> really want.
>
> Davide

Yeah thats what I want to do. At least untill we can get all the
sites moved over to the linux box.
Thanks!

Melissa <delpayne@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah thats what I want to do. At least untill we can get all the
> sites moved over to the linux box.

Have you considered the use of mod_proxy to server IIS pages
trought Apache?

Davide

Davide Bianchi
> Melissa wrote:
> > Yeah thats what I want to do. At least untill we can get all the
> > sites moved over to the linux box.
>
> Have you considered the use of mod_proxy to server IIS pages
> trought Apache?
>
> Davide

I hadn't really thought of that. We kind of set the machine up in a
hurry because it was a spur of the moment change and I havn't really
had a chance to read through all the apache doc's yet. Thanks for the
suggestion.

Melissa