How to direct all sub pages to a single default page.

[nbateman]

Hi all.

We've moved our site to a new host; anyone accessing via the

http://www address

is fine, but anyone accessing it via the ip address is now directed to an "Information page" that tells them they need to access the site via the

http://www name

and not the ip address.

We've done this by using a default virtual host i.e. the ip address doen't match any of the remaining sites so defaults to the information page.

Problem is, there are hundreds of different pages that they could have book marked and therefore access directly and we don't really want to put up hundreds of identical information pages.

Is there a directive (or another method) that causes all pages within a domain to be directed to a single page? e.g.
10.0.0.1 points to /information.html
10.0.0.1/page1 also points to /information.html
10.0.0.1/dir1/page2 also points to /information.html
etc. etc.

Assistance much appreciated.

 

[nbateman]

OK, didn't give up and stumbled upon the AliasMatch directive which does the trick - not sure how I missed it previously :-} .

I used the following within the Virtual hosts section:

AliasMatch ^/ /home/webadmin/apache/htdocs/information.html

Basically, replace any page address that starts with a "/" (everything) with the information page. Note that I needed to give the full address - /information.html didn't work.