Redirect with browse?

[jungle-boogie]

Hi All,

• explain what you are trying to do,
  Very simple - when someone browses to mags/TNA, I want to direct to https://www.google.com

This is what I have:

:80 {
tls off
root C:\Users\jungle\Documents\books
redir C:\Users\jungle\Documents\books\mags\TNA\ https://www.google.com 301
browse
}

I’m using Caddy 0.10.4 on Windows 7 64bit.

What am I doing wrong?

[Whitestrake (Matthew Fay)]

browse doesn’t really affect redir. The key point here is the root and how it interacts with request paths vs file paths. redir operates off the request path, not the file path - if you type example.com/foo/bar in your browser, the request path is /foo/bar. If the site root is /var/www, and the request is /foo/bar, Caddy will serve whatever is at the file path /var/www/foo/bar.

Since your site root is C:\Users\jungle\Documents\books, and you want to redirect requests for mags\TNA in that folder, your redir should be:

redir /mags/TNA https://www.google.com

[jungle-boogie]

Hi @Whitestrake,

That’s still failing. I also can’t redir /mags https://caddy.community

I CAN redir / https://caddy.community

[Whitestrake (Matthew Fay)]

Hmm. redir needs to match the request path exactly, except for /, which matches everything. So even a slight deviation to /mags/TNA, or requesting something inside that directory, wouldn’t be caught.

rewrite can do catch-alls, though. You can rewrite from the catch-all to an exact path, then redirect that. This might work a little better:

rewrite /mags/TNA {
	to /google
}
redir /google https://www.google.com

[jungle-boogie]

Ah, that works great.

Since I was using browse, it was showing the file contents of /mags/TA, which are many pdfs.
Unless I specifically provided a full file name, redir wouldn’t have worked - got it!

Many thanks!