How to create a rewritecond/rule

[Pasco]

Hi 2gether

I have a file on my webserver, like:

www.domain.com/demo/demo.iso

Now I'd like to go every request for this link just to

www.domain.com/demo/index.html or just www.domain.com/demo

How can I do this with rewrite? I don't get it

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond ?
RewriteRule ?

Thanks so much!
P@sco

[slatz]

Originally Posted by Pasco

www.domain.com/demo/demo.iso

Now I'd like to go every request for this link just to

www.domain.com/demo/index.html or just www.domain.com/demo

try this in your .htaccess file....

Redirect 301 /demo/demo.iso http://www.domain.com/demo

[Pasco]

works perfectly - thanks!

Just for my understanding: I could have done that with mod_rewrite too?

Cheers, p@sco

[slatz]

Originally Posted by Pasco

works perfectly - thanks!

Just for my understanding: I could have done that with mod_rewrite too?

Cheers, p@sco

yeah you could have, something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^demo\demo.iso$ demo.html


The caret, ^, signifies the start of an URL, under the current directory. This directory is whatever directory the .htaccess file is in. You’ll start almost all matches with a caret.

The dollar sign, $, signifies the end of the string to be matched. You should add this in to stop your rules matching the first part of longer URLs.

The period or dot before the file extension is a special character in regular expressions, and would mean something special if we didn’t escape it with the backslash, which tells Apache to treat it as a normal character.

So, this rule will make your server transparently redirect from demo\demo.iso to the demo.html page. Your reader will have no idea that it happened, and it’s pretty much instantaneous.

NOTE: RewriteEngine on (only needs to be specified once in your .htaccess file).