How to redirect my 10.4 server's website?

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How to redirect my 10.4 server's website?

I have an old server running OS X Server 10.4.10. There is one website hosted there, files located in /Library/WebServer/Documents. I need to move that site to a different server (before eventually shutting this one down). The new site exists (at new.server/site/), and I tried to do the redirect by adding the file /Library/WebServer/Documents/.htaccess with the contents

Redirect 301 / http://new.server/site/

The old site isn't getting redirected, though. Have I put the .htaccess file in the wrong place? Does it have the worong syntax? Do I need to enable something to allow server-side redirection in this way (e.g., turn on some module in the web server via Server Admin)?

Thanks for any help.

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Steve Anderson

Posted on Aug 8, 2012 10:18 AM

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Answer 1

YaLinguist Author

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Aug 8, 2012 10:44 AM in response to YaLinguist

Addendum: I tried to do this (on the basis of an old message) by adding a Redirect to the site (editing the only site shown in Server Admin, empty domain name, to add a URL Redirect (type: Redirect, Pattern: / Path: http://new.server/site/) and restarting the web server. But now I can't connect to the site at all (connections return an error message "can't connect to the server old.server")! And going back in, deleting the redirect and restarting it again doesn't help: I still can't connect at all.

I really need some help with these settings....

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Steve Anderson

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desutton

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Aug 23, 2012 5:28 PM in response to YaLinguist

YaLinguist,

If your going to use .htaccess files then you need to edit you /etc/httpd/sites/<vhost>.conf file.

You'll need to be root to access the file and look for the statement:

AllowOverride None

and change it to:

AllowOverride All

Then add somewhere near the top:

AccessFileName .htaccess

Save the file restart the Web service. Now your .htaccess files should work.

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