Redirect from web root to web root/webmail

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Redirect from web root to web root/webmail

Hello all, I have an email server running on X.4, and I am using squirrel mail for webmail. What is the best way for me to configure my computer so that when someone goes to mysite.com, it automatically redirects to mysite.com/webmail?

TIA!

Apple IIc, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 70 Macs, 100 PC's

Posted on Jun 12, 2007 12:01 PM

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Answer 1

Camelot

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Jun 12, 2007 12:05 PM in response to Cerdafied

Assuming this is running under Mac OS X Server, just use Server Admin to create a redirect for / to send users to /webmail/

You can also do it by getting under the hood and tuning Apache directly, but Server Admin is easier if you're not familiar with Apache's configuration files.

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Cerdafied Author

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Jun 12, 2007 1:56 PM in response to Camelot

Camelot, so would I just click the + is the URL Aliases and Redirects, select Redirect as the Type, type in "/" as the Pattern, and "/webmail/" as the Path? (minus the quotes of course). My webmail redirects to webmail/src/login.php. Shoud I make the Path "/webmail/src/" then instead?

Thank you!

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Camelot

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Jun 12, 2007 2:25 PM in response to Cerdafied

> so would I just click the + is the URL Aliases and Redirects, select Redirect as the Type, type in "/" as the Pattern, and "/webmail/" as the Path?

That should work, yes.

> My webmail redirects to webmail/src/login.php. Shoud I make the Path "/webmail/src/" then instead?

There shouldn't be any need to do that. The Webmail system handles the redirect to the login page and you should probably leave that prt intact.

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Cerdafied Author

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Jun 12, 2007 5:43 PM in response to Camelot

Camelot, thank you sir. I tried just that and got the following error:

A service has encountered an error. Try to refresh the view (Myserver/Web). Report the problem... (could not start web service - details in error log).

I checked my error log and I see that there is a syntax error on line 35 of /etc/httpd/sites/ longfilename.conf. Directly below it says "Redirect to non-URL". Hmm I must have misconfigured this thing somehow. If that makes any sense to you, I would appreciate the insight. Otherwise, I might have to try something different.

Thanks again.

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Camelot

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Jun 12, 2007 8:22 PM in response to Cerdafied

>A service has encountered an error. Try to refresh the view (Myserver/Web). Report the problem... (could not start web service - details in error log).

My bad - I didn't read closely enough.

The redirect has to be to a URL, not a relative path, so you'll need to include the http://your.server.net/ part in the redirect target.

You might also need to be more explicit on the match - the docs indicate that URIs that start with the string are redirected. Since every URI is going to start with / you'll be in an endless redirect.

Try changing the pattern to ^/$ (which will match exactly / as opposed to anything that begins with /).

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Cerdafied Author

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Jun 18, 2007 4:05 PM in response to Camelot

Camelot, it's working! This is what I had to do:

Type: Redirect
Pattern: /index.html
Path: http://mywebserver.com/webmail/

Works great! Thanks!!!!

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