[FX.php List] [Off] Help with .htaccess RewriteRule or Redirect

[Roger Moffat]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:

> I had presumed that I did not have access to httpd.conf. Speakeasy  
> only said that I could use .htaccess file and that others use it for  
> similar purposes. I presume that this means they have  
> certain .htaccess features enabled by default, or that I could ask  
> them to enable them. Perhaps Chris knows the answer since he deals  
> with Speakeasy.

Wouldn't this be very similar to what is in the .htaccess file that  
controls how BlackBelt runs?

I can't help with the syntax as I'm hopeless at regular expressions,  
but I have this line in one of my Virtual Hosts listings

     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteRule /Genealogy/.* http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/ [R]

and it works to take any request that included

/Genealogy/anthingAfterTheSlash

and redirect it to

http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/

  I see no reason why the same two lines in a .htaccess file wouldn't  
work - just figure out what it is you need to say on each side of the  
[space] there in that RewriteRule

but it seems like you're looking for something like

RewriteRule .*/flasking/.* http://lab.troymeyers.com/flasking/whatever

As I say I know nothing about the syntax of how to parse out what you  
want (and to stop the rewrite if they've already arrived at  
lab.troymeyers.com/flasking/whatever but from what I've learned in  
other places I use Apache you should be able to accomplish what you  
want in a .htaccess file with the correct regular expression.

Roger