If I use a web browser to look at a local html or pdf file, is it
possible to set things up so that a link to an external web site is
redirected to the local file system?
I have tried a .htaccess file along these lines:
RewriteEngine on
Redirect
http://external.site.com/filename.html file:///home/pra/abc/filename.html
and also
RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch
http://external\.site\.com
file:///home/pra/abc
but in all cases I just get the error message
"external.site.com" could not be found.
I have tried putting the .htaccess file in /home/pra/abc and in
/home/pra/public_html which is the usual place apache would look
for local files. I am not sure where it should go in this case.
I am using apache 1.3.34-4.1 on Debian 4.0. This is an isolated
system with no internet connection.
Peter Alefounder.
