[Moin-user] how do I do hostname redirection in a farm?

[R.Bauer]

Ted Stern schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> I currently have a wiki farm located on somehost.someplace.com (for
> example), with wikis named like this in farmconfig.py:
> 
>     # for multiple wikis, do something like this:
>     ("examplewiki",  r"^somehost.somewhere.com/ExampleWiki.*$"),
> 
> We are going to be moving the wiki host to another computer, and I
> have anticipated this by creating a hostname alias on our local
> nameserver that points 'mywikis.somewhere.com' to
> 'somehost.somewhere.com'.
> 
> However, after I change farmconfig.py to point to the new hostname,
> anyone going to the old hostname gets an error message.
> 
> Is there a simple way to put up a redirection page or something that
> will send my users to the correct new URL?
> 
> Ted


You need to set a 301 redirect on the old system.
See the config options for your server.

e.g. a RewriteRule

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htaccess 301 redirect tutorial

Reimar