puzzled with redirect

I want to redirect everyting that goes to
http://myweb.TLD/foo/bar/
to
http://otherweb.TLD/foobar/index.php?page=getfirstpage

what I mean is that no matter if they look for
/foo/bar/index.html or /foo/bar/subdir/blah.txt
they always get redirected to the same otherweb.TLD page.

Redirect permanent /foo/bar http://otherweb.TLD/foobar/index.php?page=getfirstpage
adds index.html at the end to getfirstpage (getfirstpageindex.html), and
Redirect permanent /foo/bar/index.html http://otherweb.TLD/foobar/index.php?page=getfirstpage
only serves index.html.

what possibilities do I have?


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Robi

"Robi" <r_buecheler@remove.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I want to redirect everyting that goes to
> http://myweb.TLD/foo/bar/
> to
> http://otherweb.TLD/foobar/index.php?page=getfirstpage
>
> what I mean is that no matter if they look for
> /foo/bar/index.html or /foo/bar/subdir/blah.txt
> they always get redirected to the same otherweb.TLD page.
>
> Redirect permanent /foo/bar
http://otherweb.TLD/foobar/index.php?page=getfirstpage
> adds index.html at the end to getfirstpage (getfirstpageindex.html), and
> Redirect permanent /foo/bar/index.html
http://otherweb.TLD/foobar/index.php?page=getfirstpage
> only serves index.html.
>
> what possibilities do I have?
>

First, an explanation of what is happening here. The idea of Redirect is to
redirect the request on the server and path that the incoming request had.
Therefore, it doesn't suit your purposes, because you want all requests,
regardless of their path (past /foo/bar) to go to one specific page.

If you first example, the server is giving the browser an initial redirect
to its own index.html page, then when the browser requests index.html, it
re-maps the index.html request onto the otherweb request and sends back the
redirect.

In the second example, the redirect will only work if you _specifically_
request index.html. Just requesting the directory won't work.

So, the solution: I would recommend using the RedirectMatch directive, as
follows:

RedirectMatch 301 /foo/bar/
http://otherweb.TLD/foobar/index.php?page=getfirstpage
^ don't forget this last slash

That should do what you want.

Gabriel