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kelvin
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Joined: 10 August 2008
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Posted: 10 August 2008 at 4:05pm \| IP Logged

Hi,

I'm just trying to get a handle on how host rewriting works; I want to have a site called test.cms make it so that if the user tries to access publictest.cms then behind the scenes it will rewrite to test.cms (while still showing publictest.cms in the browser address bar).

I've setup a site with a host header test.cms and put a helloworld.htm file in it.

In my hosts file I've set
127.0.0.1 test.cms
127.0.0.1 publictest.cms

then in my ISAPI rewrite httpd.conf file I've put both these:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} publictest\.cms
RewriteHeader Host: .* test\.cms

RewriteCond Host: publictest\.cms
RewriteHeader Host: .* test\.cms

When I load test.cms I can see the helloworld.htm fine, and I would have expected to also be able to put publictest.cms/helloworld.htm - but that doesn't work (gives a 404). I thought behind the scenes it would rewrite publictest.cms to test.cms.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Kelvin.

Anton
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Joined: 30 January 2007
Location: Ukraine
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Posted: 11 August 2008 at 4:41am \| IP Logged

Guess you are using ISAPI_Rewrite3. Then your config should be like this:

RewriteCond {HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?publictest\.cms$
RewriteRule (.*) http://test.cms$1 [NC,P]

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Anton

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