How To Use Mod_rewrite To Redirect Users?

[jrd]

Hi. I'm trying to use mod_rewrite to refer any URLs with my domain to a Weblog hosted by Typepad.

 

In other words, when people come to www.myTCHdomain.com/blog/content.htm I want the page that loads to be http://myblogname.typepad.com/blog/content.htm but the URL in the browser to remain www.myTCHdomain.com/blog/content.htm

 

I'm using this code in my .htaccess file:

 

>RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ http://myblogname.typepad.com/blog/$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^blog$ http://myblogname.typepad.com/blog/ [P]
RewriteRule ^/$ http://myblogname.typepad.com/ [P]
RewriteRule ^$ http://myblogname.typepad.com/ [P]

 

which I'm told has worked for other people using Typepad, but after I upload that, I keep getting this error when going to my domain on TCH:

"Not Found. The requested URL / was not found on this server."

 

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and was wondering if you might have any ideas. I don't really know how to use mod_rewrite -- I'm just borrowing others' code -- so I'm not sure if there's something I need to change to make it work with TCH.

 

Thanks.

[krieser]

This may or may not be related (as i'm not too sharp with mod_rewrite), but is mod_proxy installed on our servers (mine is 50)? I was trying to get this to work too, and it seems the "[P]" sends the request through mod_proxy. I could be way off here...

[MikeJ]

No. Krieser is exactly right. Proxying is not enabled. [P] is telling the redirects to use mod_proxy.

 

The rewrite rules you have are correct if proxy was installed.

 

Since allowing proxy through a hosting provider's servers can open up some opportunities of abuse, I'm not sure that's something TCH would allow, but if you want mod_proxy installed, you'll likely have to open up a support ticket and see if they'll approve it.