How can I use mod_rewrite to redirect http://www.mydomain.com/forums/ to http://www.mydomain.com:8000/forums/ ?

Wouldn't this work? (in .htaccess):
Redirect /forums http://www.mydomain.com:8000/forums/

i don't want my users to see the :8000

You want only the forumd directory to be served from port 8000?

Originally posted by Ahmad
You want only the forumd directory to be served from port 8000?
yeh

This can only be done with application level redirection. In this kind of redirection the url with :8000 is sent to the browser, then depending on the type/version of the user agent (browser), it might or might not appear in the address bar (assuming there is an address bar in your user agent).

I once had a similar redirection for one of my forums using mod_rewrite and used Internet Explorer to visit the old addresses. Sometimes the new address would appear and sometimes the old one, and I'm not sure what decides that.

If it was a whole domain or subdomain with its own dedicated IP address, you can do that transparently by IP forwarding (network level redirection). But you want it for a single directory.

btw, is www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com:8000 on the same Apache instance?

I think there is a solution, if they are.

Try this in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com:8000/forums/$1

Originally posted by Ahmad
btw, is www.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com:8000 on the same Apache instance?

I think there is a solution, if they are.
no
Port 80 is an Apache/1.3.19 PHP/4.0.6
Port 8000 is an Apache/1.3.24 PHP/4.2.1

If you don't want the 8080 part appears on your URL, you need to recompile the httpd on port 80 with mod_proxy included and use the following mod_rewrite statement:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/forums/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com:8000/forums/$1 [P]