need help with /~usersite

[billylucas]

Hello I have a RHEL5 server with a special hosting panel installed. Basically what the situation is I have some legacy usersites that have been migrated onto the server and need to use mod_rewrite to do some url changing.

what I want is

navigating to www.example.com/~billy redirects you to users.example.com/billy

I have a handfull of these users and is there some sort of universal way of making it so that the content after the tilde is matched to the redirect? for example

going to www.example.com/~billy goes to users.example.com/billy and then typing in www.example.com/~billy1 goes to users.example.com/billy1 accomplishing this with only a few lines of rules and conditions? I had this working once before but the server died and lost the .htaccess file.

The other fact is, www.example.com and users.example.com live in seperate root directories. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.

[richardk]

You should be able to do that with RedirectMatch (mod_dir)

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RedirectMatch 301 ^~([^/]+)(/(.*))?$ http://$1.example.com/$3

[billylucas]

ok, that resembles what I had a while ago in there, but I am new to .htaccess files and mod rewrite, I am coming off of an ISAPI background.

this is currently my .htaccess file output

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch 301 ^~([^/]+)(/(.*))?$ http://$1.users.vcnet.com/$3
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.iswest.com/ [R=301,L]


when I comment out the aliasing in the httpd.conf, I can't reach the tilde site.

I have the 301 redirect in there because everything BUT the tilde sites should forward to iswest.com

once again, any help is appreciated.

[richardk]

Where is the .htaccess file?
What aliasing in the httpd.conf file?

Try

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^~([^/]+)(/(.*))?$ http://$1.users.vcnet.com/$3 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule .* http://www.iswest.com/? [R=301,L]

[billylucas]

ok that seemed to help, it forwards everything but the tildes to iswest.com however the url stays the same for example, when I type "www.vcnet.com/~andy" it stays at that URL instead of going to "users.vcnet.com/andy"

to answer other questions, I have the .htaccess file inside of the vcnet.com root directory, all domains live in their own root directory.

As far as the alias inside the httpd config I had this but commented it out to test the mod_rewrites

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Alias /~andy /hsphere/local/home/iswebmaster0/users.vcnet.com/andy


[billylucas]

ok if I place this line in the virtual host entry for iswest.com

this is for a different scenario, similar thing though

when going to www.iswest.com/~mattp I want it to rewrite to users.iswest.com/mattp

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RewriteRule ^/~(.+)$ http://users.iswest.com/$1 [R=301,L]


any thoughts?

[billylucas]

ok, more things uncovered now. I added logging for mod rewrite and stumbled across this.

this is what was output when I tailed the log file when the rule I posted above was placed in the .htaccess file.

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76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:52:03 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9af7860][rid#a6a1798/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /~annag
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:52:03 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9af7860][rid#a6a1798/initial] (1) pass through /~annag
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:52:03 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9af7860][rid#a6a1798/initial] (3) [perdir /hsphere/local/home/iswebmaster0/vcnet.com/] strip per-dir prefix: /hsphere/local/home/iswebmaster0/vcnet.com/~annag -> ~annag
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:52:03 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9af7860][rid#a6a1798/initial] (3) [perdir /hsphere/local/home/iswebmaster0/vcnet.com/] applying pattern '^/~(.+)$' to uri '~annag'
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:52:03 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9af7860][rid#a6a1798/initial] (1) [perdir /hsphere/local/home/iswebmaster0/vcnet.com/] pass through /hsphere/local/home/iswebmaster0/vcnet.com/~annag


and when I place the same rule inside of the virtual host config file for the site.

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76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:54:00 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9bbd210][rid#a6ecb58/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /~annag
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:54:00 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9bbd210][rid#a6ecb58/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/~(.+)$' to uri '/~annag'
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:54:00 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9bbd210][rid#a6ecb58/initial] (2) rewrite '/~annag' -> 'http://users.vcnet.com/annag'
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:54:00 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9bbd210][rid#a6ecb58/initial] (2) explicitly forcing redirect with http://users.vcnet.com/annag
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:54:00 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9bbd210][rid#a6ecb58/initial] (1) escaping http://users.vcnet.com/annag for redirect
76.95.177.65 - - [03/Jun/2009:23:54:00 --0700] [www.vcnet.com/sid#9bbd210][rid#a6ecb58/initial] (1) redirect to http://users.vcnet.com/annag [REDIRECT/301]


as always, any thoughts will help.

[richardk]

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applying pattern '^/~(.+)$' to uri '~annag'

Remove the slash from the pattern and it will match.

For /~userA to http://users.example.com/userA (in a .htaccess file)

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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^~([^/]+)(/(.*))?$ http://users.example.com/$1/$3 [R=301,L]

[billylucas]

I bow to your knowledge sir. I thank you and would shake your hand if I could. I am doing my best to learn about the whole admin side of apache. Anyways once again, thank you.