apache mod_rewrite help

[haganxy]

i was 100% sure my .htaccess/mod_rewrite was working, but now it seems to have stopped working.

this is what i want it to do:

if there is NO HTTP_REFERER, then redirect the customer to www.yahoo.com. but it's not working ( i get cannot find server or permission denied errors )

here is my .htaccess file. can anyone help?


RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yahoo.com/ [L,F]

[JustMe]

Try sticking

Options +FollowSymlinks

at the top of that

[haganxy]

Try sticking

Options +FollowSymlinks

at the top of that

thanks for the help, but it still doesn't work. and i made sure apache will allow FollowSymlinks override:

AllowOverride All

[haganxy]

i figured it out.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yahoo.com/ [L,F]


should be:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yahoo.com/ [L,R]


"R" not "F"

[Soonnow]

I was under the impression that when a surfer
opens a link "in a new window" the target server
won't get a referrererrerer ... ? (only in FireFox?)
- Wouldn't you be dumping a lot of potentials by
rerouting them to Yahoo ?

[Chilihost]

Hagan, glad to see you caught that typo, htaccess is very very fussy with its syntax, you miss one little bit of syntax and the whole thing not only stops working but can also messes up normal access on your site too.

Soonnow, I think yahoo.com is just a sample URL, I am sure he is not redirecting surfers there!!!

cheers,
Luke

[haganxy]

yes, www.yahoo.com is just a sample URL, it was just a placeholder.