[olug] simple alternative to mod_rewrite?

[Luke-Jr]

On Wednesday 06 January 2010 10:33:02 am neal rauhauser wrote:
>    We've outsourced our web hosting to an unresponsive vendor and one of
>  our (intentionally) dwindling set of customers moved to using a blogspot
>  blog ... and now they're furious that we can't simply 'point' their domain
>  to this new location. I have control of DNS, I have a bare Apache 2.2, and
>  I'm hearing that using mod_rewrite is a one liner ... but getting it going
>  is a half day job for someone who has done it previously.
> 
> 
>    Can anyone suggest a simple package for taking a single incoming request
> to a web server port on an otherwise unused machine and directing it
> elsewhere? Perhaps this is a netcat problem ...

mod_rewrite is simple. Why not use it?