[ic] Redirection of domain name

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:05:57 +1100 (EST)
Howard Lowndes <lannet@lannet.com.au> wrote:

> I need to have a simple domain name for my clients to use, such as 
> shop.mydomain.com
> and I want to redirect that to 
> shop.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myshop
> because the latter is a lot harder for clients to remember.
> 
> I have tried putting a redirect in apache in the virtual host
> configuration for shop.mydomain.com such as
> redirect permanent / http://shop.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myshop/
> but that doesn't work as it continually loops until apache decides that 
> there are too many redirects.

You advised it to loop !

Try:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http:/shop.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myshop/

Bye
       Racke