Rewrite Assistance (Apache 2)

I've been looking at rewrite rules for a couple days, and it's almost
starting to make sense. However, my current task has me scratching my head.

Let's say I want to make requests for http://www.catfolks.net load
http://www.p3ts.com/catfolks.html. In my httpd.conf file I've got:

<VirtualHost 66.245.241.124:80>
ServerAdmin (the usual)
DocumentRoot /www/pages/catfolks.net
ServerName www.catfolks.net
ServerAlias catfolks.net
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.p3ts.com/catfolks.html
ErrorLog (the usual)
CustomLog (the usual)
</VirtualHost>

My understanding of rewrite rules make me believe that a request for
anything on catfolks.net (the (.*) part) will get redirected to
http://www.p3ts.com/catfolks.html. What actually happens, though, is that
I load http://www.p3ts.com (the index.html page). What am I
misunderstanding about the rewrite process?

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:16:02 -0800, Dan M sent:

> I've been looking at rewrite rules for a couple days, and it's almost
> starting to make sense. However, my current task has me scratching my
> head.
>
> Let's say I want to make requests for http://www.catfolks.net load
> http://www.p3ts.com/catfolks.html. In my httpd.conf file I've got:
>
> <VirtualHost 66.245.241.124:80>
> ServerAdmin (the usual)
> DocumentRoot /www/pages/catfolks.net
> ServerName www.catfolks.net
> ServerAlias catfolks.net
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule (.*) http://www.p3ts.com/catfolks.html ErrorLog (the usual)
> CustomLog (the usual)
> </VirtualHost>
>
> My understanding of rewrite rules make me believe that a request for
> anything on catfolks.net (the (.*) part) will get redirected to
> http://www.p3ts.com/catfolks.html. What actually happens, though, is that
> I load http://www.p3ts.com (the index.html page). What am I
> misunderstanding about the rewrite process?

I would imagine that requests to www.p3ts.com wouldn't be taken care of by
that VirtualHost block, as it's not one of the server names or aliases it
applies to, so the rewrite rule inside it oughtn't to get applied.
Perhaps you should add it to the aliases.

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