Multiple redirects with one domain on Apache

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to redirect one URL to one location:

http://mydomain.com/admin to http://mydomain.com/admin 

And have all other requests from

http://mydomain.com point to http://myotherdomain.com 

So essentially all other requests will redirect to myotherdomain.com except for http://mydomain.com/admin

I've tried setting up a Redirect rule in Apache but I'm not having any luck. I get a "The page isn't redirecting properly" message.

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mydomain.com ServerAlias www.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /opt/www/mydomain.com/ Redirect /admin http://mydomain.com/admin Redirect / http://www.myotherdomain.com </VirtualHost> 

Answer 1

Did you try (note the trailing slash):

Redirect /admin http://mydomain.com/admin/ 

Otherwise it would match /admin again in the Redirect, and get stuck in the loop you mentioned.

Alternatively, you could use mod_rewrite (untested):

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !admin RewriteRule (.*) http://myotherdomain.com$1 [L] 

(Apache will automatically redirect http://mydomain.com/dir to http://mydomain.com/dir/ for any directory, so you would just need to refine the RewriteCond.)