[SGVLUG] Proper handling of 301 redirects

[Joshua Haglund]

What http server are you using? With apache, I'd think
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/remapping.html
would be where to start.


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:

> I have a need for HTTP redirects.
>
> A 301 redirect includes a "Location:" HTTP header with the new URL - as
> far as I can tell it is specified that this must be a fully qualified URL
> including host name.
>
> My server is not necessarily smart enough to know its full host name - it
> may be accessed via a NAT firewall forward, be multi-homed, it may just be
> mis-configured, think it is "localhost", be a reverse proxy, etc.  At any
> rate, this seems to be a point of woe I keep running into.
>
> Is there a better way to re-direct where I can use relative URL paths
> without having to worry about the hostname?
>
> -braddock
>
>
>
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