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<title>When not to use mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server</title>
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<link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" />
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<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header">
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<p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p>
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<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.3</p>
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<img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div>
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<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.3</a> > <a href="./">Rewrite</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>When not to use mod_rewrite</h1>
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<div class="toplang">
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<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/avoid.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
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</div>
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<p>This document supplements the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>
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<a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">reference documentation</a>. It describes
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perhaps one of the most important concepts about mod_rewrite - namely,
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when to avoid using it.</p>
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<p>mod_rewrite should be considered a last resort, when other
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alternatives are found wanting. Using it when there are simpler
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alternatives leads to configurations which are confusing, fragile, and
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hard to maintain. Understanding what other alternatives are available is
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a very important step towards mod_rewrite mastery.</p>
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<p>Note that many of these examples won't work unchanged in your
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particular server configuration, so it's important that you understand
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them, rather than merely cutting and pasting the examples into your
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configuration.</p>
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<div class="warning">This document is a work in progress.</div>
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</div>
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<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirect">Simple Redirection</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#alias">URL Aliasing</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#vhosts">Virtual Hosting</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxy">Simple Proxying</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#setenv">Environment Variable Testing</a></li>
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</ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">Module documentation</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">mod_rewrite introduction</a></li><li><a href="remapping.html">Redirection and remapping</a></li><li><a href="access.html">Controlling access</a></li><li><a href="vhosts.html">Virtual hosts</a></li><li><a href="proxy.html">Proxying</a></li><li><a href="rewritemap.html">Using RewriteMap</a></li><li><a href="advanced.html">Advanced techniques and tricks</a></li></ul></div>
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<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="redirect" id="redirect">Simple Redirection</a></h2>
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<p><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html">mod_alias</a></code> provides the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirect">Redirect</a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch">RedirectMatch</a></code> directives, which provide a
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means to redirect one URL to another. This kind of simple redirection of
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one URL, or a class of URLs, to somewhere else, should be accomplished
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using these directives rather than <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule">RewriteRule</a></code>. <code>RedirectMatch</code>
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allows you to include a regular expression in your redirection criteria,
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providing many of the benefits of using <code>RewriteRule</code>.</p>
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<p>A common use for <code>RewriteRule</code> is to redirect an entire
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class of URLs. For example, all URLs in the <code>/one</code> directory
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must be redirected to <code>http://one.example.com/</code>, or perhaps
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all <code>http</code> requests must be redirected to
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<code>https</code>.</p>
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<p>These situations are better handled by the <code>Redirect</code>
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directive. Remember that <code>Redirect</code> preserves path
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information. That is to say, a redirect for a URL <code>/one</code> will
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also redirect all URLs under that, such as <code>/one/two.html</code>
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and <code>/one/three/four.html</code>.</p>
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<p>To redirect URLs under <code>/one</code> to
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<code>http://one.example.com</code>, do the following:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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Redirect /one/ http://one.example.com/
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</code></p></div>
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<p>To redirect <code>http</code> URLs to <code>https</code>, do the
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following:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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<VirtualHost *:80>
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ServerName www.example.com<br />
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Redirect / https://www.example.com/<br />
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</VirtualHost >
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<br />
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<VirtualHost *:443>
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ServerName www.example.com<br />
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<br />
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# ... SSL configuration goes here<br />
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</VirtualHost >
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</code></p></div>
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<p>The use of <code>RewriteRule</code> to perform this task may be
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appropriate if there are other <code>RewriteRule</code> directives in
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the same scope. This is because, when there are <code>Redirect</code>
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and <code>RewriteRule</code> directives in the same scope, the
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<code>RewriteRule</code> directives will run first, regardless of the
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order of appearance in the configuration file.</p>
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<p>In the case of the <em>http-to-https</em> redirection, the use of
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<code>RewriteRule</code> would be appropriate if you don't have access
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to the main server configuration file, and are obliged to perform this
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task in a <code>.htaccess</code> file instead.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="alias" id="alias">URL Aliasing</a></h2>
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<p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#alias">Alias</a></code> directive
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provides mapping from a URI to a directory - usually a directory outside
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of your <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code>. Although it
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is possible to perform this mappint with <code>mod_rewrite</code>,
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<code>Alias</code> is the preferred method, for reasons of simplicity
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and performance.</p>
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<div class="example"><h3>Using Alias</h3><p><code>
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Alias /cats /var/www/virtualhosts/felines/htdocs
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</code></p></div>
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<p>
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The use of <code>mod_rewrite</code> to perform this mapping may be
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appropriate when you do not have access to the server configuration
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files. Alias may only be used in server or virtualhost context, and not
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in a <code>.htaccess</code> file.
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</p>
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<p>Symbolic links would be another way to accomplish the same thing, if
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you have <code>Options FollowSymLinks</code> enabled on your
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server.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="vhosts" id="vhosts">Virtual Hosting</a></h2>
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<p>Although it is possible to handle <a href="vhosts.html">virtual hosts
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with mod_rewrite</a>, it is seldom the right way. Creating individual
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<VirtualHost> blocks is almost always the right way to go. In the
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event that you have an enormous number of virtual hosts, consider using
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<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_vhost_alias.html">mod_vhost_alias</a></code> to crate these hosts automatically.</p>
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<p>Third-party modules sucha as <a href="link_needed">mod_macro</a> are
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also useful for creating a large number of virtual hosts dymaically.</p>
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<p>Using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> for vitualhost creation may be
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appropriate if you are using a hosting service that does not provide
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you access to the server configuration files, and you are therefore
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restricted to configuration using <code>.htaccess</code> files.</p>
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<p>See the <a href="vhosts.html">virtual hosts with mod_rewrite</a>
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document for more details on how you might accomplish this if it still
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seems like the right approach.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="proxy" id="proxy">Simple Proxying</a></h2>
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<p>ProxyPass</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="setenv" id="setenv">Environment Variable Testing</a></h2>
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<div class="note">Parts of this section are applicable only to Apache HTTP
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Server 2.3 and later.</div>
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<p>Using SetEnvIf and <If> (2.3 and later.)</p>
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</div></div>
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<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/avoid.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
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<p class="apache">Copyright 2010 The Apache Software Foundation.<br />Licensed under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.</p>
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