Re: [cobalt-developers] change ip address problems

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:31:35AM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> One disadvantage, of course, is that if the html is poorly written,
> people who leave off the www when they type will possibly have
> navigation problems.  But that's a separate issue.

It's also one of the biggest reasons I tend to like the 
rewritten address...Far easier to let the server cater to 
the self-proclaimed HTML gurus than spend hours on the phone
teaching them how to build a web site...

> Can you break down the rules for us one by one, so we know which we can
> safely comment out to disable specific "feature"?

Umm...Jeff, from your past comments I'm sure you grok this as well
as I -- but the Redirect entries in the httpd.conf are about as 
straight forward as you can get.  For those without the benefit
of time to read their site docs it uses mod_rewrite in Apache
to catch conditions such as anysite/admin to host:81/.cobalt/sysManage
and somesite/siteadmin to somesite:81/.cobalt/siteManage/somesite/.

If you want to understand it better, check out http://www.apache.org
and look under the docs page, follow the links to modules and read
about mod_rewrite and mod_redirect. ;-)


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