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rustyx
Asked: 2012-07-25 01:04:50 +0800 CST

Apache server-relative redirect

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Is it possible to implement a server-relative redirect using existing Apache features?

mod_alias does have a Redirect command, but that one always generates an absolute redirect even if configured like

Redirect /asdf /qwer

Also tried using mod_rewrite like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /asdf(.*) /qwer$1 [R,L]

The end result of either of these settings is the same:

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://my-host.blah.blah:20085/qwer

But what I really need is:

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: /qwer

--- EDIT ---

Yes, I know this is against RFC spec. But all modern browsers support a relative redirect, and I really need it for a temporary fix.

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. That is the way Redirect works; from the manual:

    The new URL should be an absolute URL beginning with a scheme and hostname, but a URL-path beginning with a slash may also be used, in which case the scheme and hostname of the current server will be added.

    From RFC 2616, section 14.30:

    The field value consists of a single absolute URI.

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