#412 301 Redirection

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: gigio.sa... (code.google.com)@gmail.com

What is the expected output?

To be able to permanently redirect (301) the server's address to a different page on a different server.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Mongoose DEV 5.4.2 on Windows Server 2008 [r2] Datacenter

Please provide any additional information below.

I would like to redirect the page to another page in a different server. I have purchased and installed Mongoose because of its very low footprint on the server. I am currently using the re_write option using the errors 403 and 404 to temporarily move the page to the correct destination,since I have no data what so ever on the shared Web folder on the server that Mongoose is installed. But when Mongoose redirects it to the real website, it shows the parameters on the address bar, which is not the ideal solution whatsoever. The ideal solution would be a field to insert the address for a permanent 301 redirection.

Thank you very much for your help.
Kind regards,
Giovanni

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: googl...@springtimesoftware.com

Giovanni, Thank you for your request. But its nature indicates that you may not understand the purpose of Mongoose. It is not meant to be a replacement for Apache, and is not meant to be a general-purpose Web server. If we added all useful Apache directives, Mongoose would no longer be tiny!

It is a tiny server meant to be part of a stand-alone application. In this usage, the data for the application is present on the same site. Redirection is not needed.

Even if data is in a different domain, it can be fetched through Mongoose (for example, using PHP, which is almost fully supported) without top-level redirection.

For example, suppose we want to put some Web pages on a CD, and hand them to customers. If we want the CD to serve those pages, as though it were a website, we can accomplish that by using Mongoose.

Unless you can give a use case (an example of usage) for the proposed feature, it is unlikely to be accepted.