Calling regex geeks!

[annathepiper]

I need to tell Apache on newmoon to redirect all web hits over to lodestone--except that I want to allow any hits to newmoon that invoke the Mailman web UI to come on through.

I already have a RedirectMatch line that redirects anything of the form murkworks.net/~username. But I want to redirect anything in the Document Root, and NOT direct anything of the form murkworks.net/mailman/whatever.

Does anyone have any brilliant suggestions as to a regular expression I can feed the Apache config file to make it redirect anything that ISN'T murkworks.net/mailman/whatever? I tried a negative lookahead assertion, but when I try to restart apache, it bitches about not being able to compile the expression.

Comments

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

So, basically you want to redirect everything BUT /mailman/ ?

Wokay.

Try:

RewriteRule ^/mailman/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://lodestone.murkworks.net/$1 [R]

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

(of course, you need to load mod_rewrite and do
RewriteEngine On
too)

[annathepiper]

Oh cool!

Okay, this seems on initial testing to be working correctly, except that I notice that it's adding an extra slash to the URLs it's rewriting to be lodestone ones. So I took the / out of the second rule you listed above, and that seemed to fix that problem *AND* let URLs of the form murkworks.net/~username punt over to lodestone as well.

So this seems to work like a charm. Thanks Mike! :)

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

mod_rewrite is your friend :)

There is *so* much you can do with it, it's untrue. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html for a few more scary examples.

[annathepiper]

I bumped into a bit of this just googling around looking for regex examples, yeah. It looks very powerful indeed. Now that I know about this kind of stuff perhaps I can pick up a few more Apache clues. ;)