Redirecting Files

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May 28th, 2000, 10:32 AM

Ishamael

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I'm using a Cobalt RAQ 2 server with Linux, and I was wondering -- is it possible to make a file point to a URL? For example, if I have a file named www.mysite.com/file.tar,
when somebody requests it I'd like my server to transparently redirect them to www.othersite.com/otherfile.tar. I'd really like it to be transparent and unnoticable to the user. Is that possible, using a .htacces file or something? I've seen it done on FTP sites, and I was wondering about Web sites.

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May 28th, 2000, 10:57 AM

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http://www.mysite.com/file.tar

#http://www.mysite.com/.htaccess

RedirectMatch (.*).tar$ http://www.othersite.com/$1.tar

May 28th, 2000, 12:20 PM

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Thanks, it works wonderfully! But where did you learn that? Is there some sort of .htacces reference manual somewhere that I could look at?

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May 28th, 2000, 01:23 PM

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