How to get Apache2 to redirect to a subdirectory

Question

I am running apache2 on Debian etch, with multiple virtual hosts.

I want to redirect so that http://git.example.com goes to http://git.example.com/git/

Should be really simple, but Google isn't quite cutting it. I've tried the Redirect and Rewrite stuff and they don't quite seem to do what I want ...

Solution 1

Feel a bit silly - a bit more googling turned up the answer I was after:

RedirectMatch ^/$ /git/

Basically redirecting the root, and only the root.

This code could do in a .htaccess file (there is a tag for this, so I assume that is the original use case). But if you can edit ,the main server apache config then put it in the section for your website probably inside a <VirtualHost> section.

The docs for RedirectMatch say that the context can be "server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess".

Solution 2

You've got the correct answer there with the redirect. You have to be careful when redirecting everything to somewhere else, since you can get recursive redirects there. This happens if you want to put up a maintenance page.

Solution 3

You can use Redirect directive.

<Directory />
   Redirect permanent / http://git.example.com/git/
   ...
</Directory>

Comments

[WerkkreW]

There are many ways you could approach this, but what is exactly what you are trying to accomplish?

[Davor Josipovic]

Indeed. Redirect / /git/ results in recursive fireworks.

[Jonah Benton]

ErrorDocument should return an error page, not a useful document. This is important for crawlers.

[user230910]

ok, so where to put this line of code?

[Mat M]

I had to put a full URI (https://example.com/git/) for this to work. Strange.

[把友情留在无盐]

This NOT work! Firstly, <Directory ...> tags are used for local filesystem path, not for url. For url use <Location ...> tags. Secondly, "Redirect" matches partial url from the left. Thus /git is also a match, creating a infinite redirect loop.

[Kiril]

You have to use double quotes as per documentation you've linked.