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Im currently writing a django website, and ive got a bunch of flatpages that are my basic website. What i want is www.example.com/home to be the main website flatpage, but when people go to www.example.com it redirects to www.example.com/home. Im sure this is a simple thing, i just had trouble coming up with the correct search terms.

A few possible solutions that ive had a look into

  1. mod_rewrite for apache. Seems a little overkill for this.
  2. DNS redirect. once again seems ok if going from www.here.com to www.example.com but not for what I want.
  3. django.contrib.redirects, Seems will do what I want, but again seems like its for some other reason.
  4. Is there something I can do in my virtual hosts file?

Im running Ubuntu Server 9.04, apache 2.2 and Django 1.1 with wsgi.

Cheers

Mark

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mod_rewrite is a perfect fit for this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /home/ [R]
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Does the mod_rewite go in the virualhosts file? – Mark Feb 4 '10 at 8:41
yes. and now some more to fill the comment. – Christian Feb 4 '10 at 8:45
+1 for the good answer. But gave the actual answer because of performance reasons to Mathieu. – Mark Feb 4 '10 at 10:47
actually this worked first time. And i wasnt sure where to put the index.html considering the wsgi script. So I gave you the answer instead – Mark Feb 4 '10 at 11:01
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you can also put a static index.html page with this html code in the head section of this nearly empty html page:

META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=/home">

You will need to add a "<" at the beginning of course, it's blocked if i put it here

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How performant is this compared to mod_rewrite. I like the simplicity tho. – Mark Feb 4 '10 at 8:44
this is clearly what will consume the less resource. It involves the minimum: send static content to client. I think that mod_rewrite will send a 302 directly, so users won't really notice. With this static page, they will see a white page for a second or two – Mathieu Chateau Feb 4 '10 at 8:49
And also i guess if you host the static content on nginx or something it will be faster/ it will also be cached? – Mark Feb 4 '10 at 8:57
page can be cached, more over if you explicitely add the expire meta tag inside the page – Mathieu Chateau Feb 4 '10 at 10:44
Do you know if this would work with wsgi? because I dont really know where the index.html would go in this case? – Mark Feb 4 '10 at 10:51
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See my answer on Stack Overflow about how to do redirects in Django directly in urls.py..

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Any Idea on how performant this is compared to the other answers? – Mark Feb 4 '10 at 8:44
@Mark: No, sorry. – Teddy Feb 5 '10 at 7:28
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