On 9/6/07, James Ralston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now, say that (for whatever reason) we want to redirect all requests
> for any URL-path except / (root) to the root.
>
> Or you could do it using mod_rewrite:
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$
> RewriteRule .* http://localhost/ [redirect=permanent,last]
>
> But either approach will, in fact, fail: *all* URL-paths will return a
> redirect to the root, including the root itself.
I'm sure you could get it to work with mod_rewrite. The no-subrequest
[NS] flag might work, or you could add a RewriteCond to exclude the
index.html or you could use a RewriteCond on %{THE_REQUEST}.
In the case of mod_rewrite it is certainly desired behavior that it
act also on the aliased/expanded form of the path. If it didn't do
this, many interesting uses of mod_rewrite wouldn't be possible.
For mod_alias, I agree it would be clearer if it only acted on the raw
path, not the aliased/expanded one.
Joshua.
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