RE: [cobalt-users] Tricky alias redirection

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jolley, Carl [mailto:Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx]

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy A. Urick [mailto:rurick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]


If the the reference to short.com is a single URL, i.e. http://www.short.com
you should be able to come up with a rewrite rule that will send such
requests to a cgi-script on the www.long.com virtual host. With the cgi
script
you can then do all the counting you like before you issue a redirect to
www.long.com/index.html. If the requirement to count the references to
short.com was absent you could "redirect" referneces to short.com to
long.com
with a DNS CNAME record. I know that everyone says you should aways use A
records
but for this purpiose a CNAME does work and requires no changes to the
httpd.conf
file.

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Tricky NO MORE.

Here is a Perl Script to do it
#!/usr/bin/perl

$_ = $ENV{SCRIPT_URI};

if (/long/)
{
        print "Location: http://www.long.com\n\n";;   
}
else
{   
        print "Location: http://www.long.com/index2.html\n\n";;
}

Have fun ... it works, I tried it with my domain name ... I can not say if
it will work for you.  But I am sure with some tinkering, you will be able
to get it to work!

Enjoy,

Brian Smith 
CCNA, NCSA
Network Support Engineer
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