Mod_rewrite primer

I’ve had to write a number of .htaccess files over the past week or so. My uses of mod_rewrite are simple enough, but I thought to post here since there in case anybody just wants to accomplish something quickly. Ask your system administrator to set the AllowOverride property to FileInfo or All, otherwise these overrides won’t work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://blog.waynekhan.net/ [R=301,L]

Permanent (301) redirect some_page.html:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/some_page.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://blog.waynekhan.net/posts/2008-09-10-mod-rewrite-primer/ [R=301,L]

That’s all, folks!