yup,,, that little box cops a hammering... but even on my hardly loaded XP1800 box, it still takes a second or two.. I thought that the client browser was responsible for actually following meta redirects anyway.. which would mean the server had little to do with the speed of a meta redirect???
the the meta tag its just slow enough to notice that it has opened index.html and redirected... Here is how I solved the problem.. I added this to the bottom of /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf <VirtualHost 203.xxx.xxx.xxx> ServerName sub.domain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html Redirect permanent /index.html http://sub.domain.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi </VirtualHost> since just calling the subdomain alone would automatically call the default doc.. index.html just calling the subdomain automatically redirects to the scirpt.. and its completely instant. it never shows index.html, since apache never actually serves it. hope thats of use to someone. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:todd@;mandrakesoft.com]On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Tuesday, 5 November 2002 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] apache... url redirect to file... Franki wrote on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:43:40AM +0800 : > yeah, I considered meta tags, but I really would prefer the changeover to be > unnoticable, and meta tags always take a few secs to kick in... It sounds like your server is kinda heavily loaded. > I got it sussed, I setup a virt host and set apache up to redirect the > subdomain to the script.. > it works, and its instant. Care to post it to the list? Others might benefit from it being publicly archived :) A sanitized version is fine, just like what you posted in the original question. Blue skies... Todd -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. --Larry Wall Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-18mdk
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