A few weeks ago at work, I needed to rename a webhost. To avoid breaking a lot of links to the old hostname, I set up permanent redirection, but ran into an infinite loop. I tried both a simple Redirect statement like this:<\/p>\n
And the same thing using mod_rewrite. I have done this many times before at home, but what was special about this case is that the web server was set up as default host. So I just added a virtual host with the old hostname. Eventually I got it to work with mod_rewrite by using a RewriteCond statement to break the loop:<\/p>\n <IfModule rewrite_module> However, I’m still not sure why this is neccesarry, since the first rewritten URL should end at the default host which doesn’t rewrite anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago at work, I needed to rename a webhost. To avoid breaking a lot of links to the old hostname, I set up permanent redirection, but ran into an infinite loop. I tried both a simple Redirect … Continue reading Redirect permanent \/ http:\/\/newhost\/
\n<\/code><\/p>\n<VirtualHost *:80>
\n ServerName oldhost<\/p>\n
\n RewriteEngine on
\n RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} oldhost<\/strong>
\n RewriteRule ^\/(.*)$ http:\/\/newhost\/$1 [R=permanent,L]
\n <\/IfModule>
\n<\/VirtualHost>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n