[Web4lib] help with an Apache redirect

[Andrew Hankinson]

I'm assuming you want to replace "/~spcol" with "/legacy/spcol". In  
that case, you can try:

RewriteRule "^/~([\w\d\W\D]+)" http://www.example.com/legacy/$1

Everything inside the () is captured as variable $1, and then appended  
at the end of the URL. \w captures words, \d captures digits; their  
capital variations capture not words and not digits, respectively.  
Basically this says "capture anything that comes after a tilde, and  
write the URL with that."

Hope that helps.
-Andrew

On 12-Oct-09, at 9:58 AM, steven turner wrote:

> Hi All -
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> In Apache, I've been trying to write a redirect to perform a simple  
> regex URL rewrite  using Mod_Redirect and/or Mod_Rewrite on a client  
> request string, but I can't seem to get it to work...
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> I'm simply trying to replace the sub-string "/~"  (that's a  
> backslash and a tilde) with the substring "/legacy" in this example/ 
> theoretical URL: "http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/folderName/pageTitlle.php 
> "
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> Any takers out there? Help on this would be greatly appreciated, as  
> it's been a bugbear for me for quite some time - can't have users  
> ending up in deprecated places all the time...
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
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> Steven Turner
> Library Web Services Manager
> Associate Professor
> The University of Southern Mississippi
> Cook Library
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> phone: 601.266.4066
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