“Apache has been a growing project for many years. It is
personally amazing to me how Apache is so powerful, flexible, and
easy to configure for a programmer. There is so much documentation
about how to configure and do things in Apache, other commercial
webservers just can’t compare. Apache makes webserving fun for
programmers. There are a lot of things you can test and tinker
with.”
“Along with the growing, comes new ways of doing things without
getting rid of the old ways of doing things. I have a problem with
my computer at gnujobs.com. Basically, I need to forward every
request for ‘http://www.tcu-inc.com/mark/articles’ to
‘http://www.gnujobs.com/Articles’. I tried the Apache Redirect
directive, but it didn’t work. So, I had to figure out why it
didn’t work and to see if there was any way around it.”
“The problem is, ‘Redirect’ didn’t work for me when I tried to
forward ‘http://www.tcu-inc.com/mark/articles’ to
‘http://www.gnujobs.com/Articles’ since both websites where running
on the same webserver. However, I found out later, and it was
obvious when I thought about it twice, I was using Redirect
incorrectly. Nevertheless, it set me on a trip to get reacquainted
with mod_rewrite….”