Hi Many Thanks for that. I had searched google but I wasn't 100% sure of what I took in. Its nice to ask someone just to be sure. Shaz On 5/23/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mo, den 23.05.2005 schrieb Shahzad Chohan um 11:11: > > Don't top-post please. > > > Whats the difference between a rewrite and a redirect. I mean is there > > a reason as to why I need a 301 ( I was just told to issue a 301 by > > someone else). If I don't put an R in on the rewrite whats the default > > return? Can I also issue an R=404? > > > Shaz > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html > > Read about the HTTP status codes. You then hopefully will understand why > 404 would be the wrong return code. 301 is typically used for a > permanent movement and 302 for a temporary one. You could use 410 i.e. > for telling search engines that a webcontent is gone and should be > removed from the search engine index. But that is done by using "G" > instead of "R", or even "F" for a 403. Please read the mod_rewrite > documentation carefully. > > Deferrences between redirecting and rewriting are described here: > > http://www.cs.utk.edu/~sammons/docs/redirect.php > > Redirecting use mod_alias while rewriting uses mod_rewrite. The > mod_rewrite possibilities are much more powerful and can handle advanced > condition definitions. > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC2smp > Serendipity 17:29:02 up 9 days, 17:01, load average: 0.73, 0.43, 0.21 > > > BodyID:21523032.2.n.logpart (stored separately) > >
