Redirect Rule for All Requests that Come with A Specific Server Alias

Question

I am trying to write a redirect rule that will send all incoming requests directed at given server alias. Below is what my .conf file looks like. I am having problems with the first rule associated with foo.com. The rewrite for requests with the alias foo.com simply does not happen. I am not even sure how to debug this...

    NameVirtualHost xxx.xx.x.194
    <VirtualHost xxx.xx.x.194>
     ServerName foo.com
      ServerAlias www.foo.com

      RewriteEngine on
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/redirect.py?url=spencer [L,QSA,PT]
      SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
      SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
    </VirtualHost>
    <VirtualHost xxx.xx.x.194>
     ServerName bar.com
     ServerAlias www.bar.com

     Include /etc/httpd/conf.d/zumodo.common

     ErrorLog logs/zumodo_errors_log
     CustomLog logs/zumodo_log combined
      SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
      SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1
    </VirtualHost>

Answer 1

Try with

RewriteRule /?(.*) /cgi-bin/redirect.py?url=spencer [L,QSA,PT]

For debugging, try adding:

RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3

Answer 2

This rule:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cgi-bin/redirect.py?url=spencer [L,QSA,PT]

means: "redirect all the requests to /cgi-bin/redirect.py?url=spencer"

Is that what you actually want to do?

If no, please give two examples of Incoming URLs and how they should be transformed.

Anyway here are my 2 usual hints:

Two hints:

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Please try to use the RewriteLog directive: it helps you to track down such problems:

# Trace:
# (!) file gets big quickly, remove in prod environments:
RewriteLog "/web/logs/mywebsite.rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteEngine On

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My favorite tool to check for regexp:

http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (don't forget to choose ereg(POSIX) instead of preg(PCRE)!)