change username but keep address of personal homepage with oldusername?

Hi to all,

I'm sure there has to be an easy way of doing this but I am fairly new
to Apache so it would be great if someone could help me with this:

I recently reinstalled our server and during that process I decided to
give myself a new username.
Now of course my personal homepage, which used to be at

http://domainname/~old_username

now is at

http://domainname/~new_username

It would be great if there was a way to configure Apache (2.2 that is)
to automatically redirect visitors that try to load my homepage with
the old address to the new one. I was thinking some sort of Alias
would do the trick or maybe a redirect, but I can't figure out how.

Thanks, Jan

j.steinbrener@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I'm sure there has to be an easy way of doing this but I am fairly new
> to Apache so it would be great if someone could help me with this:
>
> I recently reinstalled our server and during that process I decided to
> give myself a new username.
> Now of course my personal homepage, which used to be at
>
> http://domainname/~old_username
>
> now is at
>
> http://domainname/~new_username
>
> It would be great if there was a way to configure Apache (2.2 that is)
> to automatically redirect visitors that try to load my homepage with
> the old address to the new one. I was thinking some sort of Alias
> would do the trick or maybe a redirect, but I can't figure out how.
>
> Thanks, Jan

Try this (untested):

Redirect permanent /~old_username /~new_username

Jim

> Redirect permanent /~old_username /~new_username

Thanks but tried it, didn't work. Also tried specifying full URL name
Redirect permanent http://domain/~old_name http://domain/~new_name

Didn't work either. I have a hunch that it somehow cannot resolve the
'~'
(which is interpreted using userdir in userdir.conf) in the redirect
command

Again, any help would be great