mod_rewrite / comprehensive redirects

[Paul Schmehl]

--On July 4, 2008 7:05:04 PM +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot 
<z.szalbot at lc-words.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I know this is not Apache's mailing list, but there are so many experts
> here that I hope someone can help me. I have the following rule:
>
> RewriteRule ^\.*$ /new/index.html
>
> This redirects the base domain to a file called index.html in 'new'
> folder.
>
> However, what I would really like to achieve is to redirect every php
> file to /new/index.html, which currently does not work.
>
> I tried modifying the rule like this:
>
> RewriteRule ^\.php$ /new/index.html
>
> However, this rule matches nothing (or at least does not redirect).
>
> How should I accomplish this? I just need to redirect all hits to
> /new/index.html until a new site is ready.
>

If that's what you want to do, make your ErrorDocument /new/index.html and 
leave the rewrites alone.

Paul Schmehl
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