Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 1999

Forwarding URLs
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Getting Results with Novell Web Services
Redirection is a method for the server to tell a user that a URL has changed—
for example, if you have moved files to another directory or server. You can
also use redirection to send a person who requests a document on one server
to a document on another server.
To map a URL to another server, you must first specify the prefix of the URL
you want the server to redirect. Then, you need to choose which URL to
redirect to. You can redirect to a URL prefix if the directory on the new server
is the same as in the mapped URL; you can also redirect to a fixed URL
(hostname, directory, and filename).
To forward URLs, do the following:
1
Click Enterprise Web Server servername > Content Management > URL
Forwarding.
2
In the URL Prefix field, enter the URL prefix you want to redirect.
For example, if the URL you want to map is http://www.netscape.com/
info/movies, you would type /info/movies in the field.
3
Select whether you want to forward requests to a URL prefix or to a fixed
URL.
4
Click OK > Save and Apply.
If you forward to a URL prefix, the forwarding keeps the full pathname and
substitutes one prefix for another. For example, if you forward http://
www.novell.com/info/docs to a prefix cambridge.com, the URL http://
www.novell.com/info/docs redirects to http://cambridge.com/info/docs.
However, if the directory structure on the new server is not the same as in the
mapped URL, you could forward the URL to a fixed URL. For example, you
could forward http://www.novell.com/info/docs to http://cambridge.com/
new-files/info/docs.
Sometimes you might want to redirect requests for all the documents in one
subdirectory to a specific URL. For example, if you had to remove a directory
because it was causing too much traffic or because the documents were no
longer to be served for any reason, you could direct a request for any one of
the documents to a page explaining why the documents were no longer
available. For example, a prefix on /info/docs could be redirected to http://
www.novell.com/explain.html.