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Asked: 2026-06-14T20:12:00+00:00

This concerns an old website which somebody else set up a long time ago,

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This concerns an old website which somebody else set up a long time ago, running on apache 1 on a mac system.

Now, this should be replaced and I have redirected all requests to a new website via .htaccess files (RedirectMatch permanent ^/(.*)$) and forgot, that there is still one project in a subfolder, that must remain accessible. However, this mistake I can’t seem to undo. I have deleted the .htaccess-file – still redirected -, recreated an empty one – still redirected – and restarted the apache. Still, I am redirected to the new webpage. What has happened? How can I find out?

Thanks a lot,
Dinah

edit:

I have checked very often now. It always tells me, the .htaccess files didn’t exist anymore. I tried to 

sudo find . -name .htaccess

it. In some subfolders, there are .htaccess-files that I did never touch.
I have edited /etc/httpd/httpd.conf to say 

AccessFileName .htaccessory

restarted 

sudo apachectl restart

and still was redirected.
(Doubted everything and thought about better going to sleep…)

My httpd.conf is too long, how can I post it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    My Browser must have cached the site. I changed the machine I am testing on and everything shows up, no redirecting at all. Astonishing first, as I remember restarting firefox when things started to become confusing. Astonishing second, as I can’t get any redirects to work at all now. I’d say, the problem is solved way too good. My .htaccess-file looks like:

    RedirectMatch permanent ^/subsite(.*)$ http://newpage.de/subsite

    that’s okay, right? But it doesn’t work. Oh man. Well, it’s late, I guess. Thanks a lot, everybody and sorry for asking.

    Best Greetings, Dinah

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