htaccess redirect and http response codes

[Karl Core]

OK, related to yesterday's conversation, during which it was mentioned that
php's header(location: ) automatically sends the HTTP 301 response code, it
got me thinking - does this also happen automatically with a redirect from
..htaccess?

TIA

 

[GreyWyvern]

OK, related to yesterday's conversation, during which it was mentioned
that
php's header(location: ) automatically sends the HTTP 301 response code,
it
got me thinking - does this also happen automatically with a redirect
from
.htaccess?

Yesh.

<http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html.en#redirect>

Grey

 

[Karl Core]

Yesh.

<http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html.en#redirect>

Thanks!

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Yesh.

You sound just like Sean Connery!

 

[GreyWyvern]

You sound just like Sean Connery!

Some people say I look like him too I think he stole all my moves.

Grey

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Yesh.

<http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html.en#redirect>

Nope. As the cited document says,
"If no status argument is given, the redirect will be "temporary" (HTTP
status 302)." Thus, a simple

redirect /~jkorpela/foo http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/bar

will send the 302 response code (which means that clients should keep
using the original address, instead of updating their hotlists,
databases, or whatever).

But you can make the server send a permanent redirect, i.e. response
code 301, in several ways:

redirect 301 /~jkorpela/foo http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/bar
redirect permanent /~jkorpela/foo http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/bar
RedirectPermanent /~jkorpela/foo http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/bar

I have no idea why Apache chose the default of sending a temporary
redirect.