Apache Question... mod_rewrite or redirect???

Mike Bilow mikebw at colossus.bilow.com
Tue Nov 21 03:47:31 EST 2000


You could do all of this, but why not just tie the cookie to some object
on the page with an explicit domain?  That is, you could do an 'IMG
SRC="http://xyz.com/...' and then tie the cookie to THAT.  This is how
Doubleclick.Net and similar operations do cookie tracking, and it is a
more general solution.  You can have the content split across different
physical servers, and you can preserve the appearance of the original URL
if that is important for business branding reasons.

-- Mike


On 2000-11-14 at 10:36 -0500, Phil Buckley wrote:

> Well, they do all point to the same set of docs, but I also need them
> to physically rewrite the URL to be abc.com, otherwise, the cookie
> scheme can get screwy because cookies are held to a different
> domain...
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> On 11/14/00 at 10:29 AM Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> >Do you want all of abc.com, def.com, et. al. to all server the same
> >content?  If so, then you don't need to do anything other than point
> >all of those names at your one server.  Otherwise, if you want to
> >serve different content, you could just use the <VirtualHost>
> >directive based on the different names and point them to different
> >content.
> >
> >I don't think you need to Rewrite or Redirect in this case.
> >
> >-derek
> >
> >"Phil Buckley" <phil at 1918.com> writes:
> >
> >> I'm just starting my long journey today into having multiple domains all point and actually re-write themselves into a common url - for cookies that track a shopper through an ecommerce site...
> >> 
> >> Here's my question, the client has 8 or ten domains that all point to a single directory, I want to use apache 1.3.9 to rewrite:
> >> abc.com, def.com, ghi.com jkl.com all to xyz.com
> >> 
> >> Here's what I think might work, but I wondering if someone else already has done some of this and can see a glaring mistake
> >> 
> >>  RewriteEngine        on
> >>  RewriteLogLevel      9
> >>  RewriteLog logs/www.salvytheflorist.com-rewrite_log
> >>  RewriteRule ^/abc.com([^/]+)/?(.*)       /xyz.com/$1/$2
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Phil

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