Hi Luigi,

I created a redirection rule to shorten the path to download files. Eg. in typing www.siteurl.de/dl/nicefile.pdf visitors should get the file www.siteurl.de/images/download/nicefile.pdf. The rule is

FROM: ^/dl/
TO: http://{siteurl}/images/download/{pathltrim /dl/}{queryfull}

With 307 everything is ok, but with 200 I get a 404 error message. The 404 message is not from the server, but from joomla. It says either "article not found" or "category not found", depending on the file name I try, but gives the correct URL as error code (eg. "Did not found category (www.siteurl.de/images/download/nicefile.pdf)"). For me it looks like joomla "captures" the 200 request and tries to handle it as article- or category-alias instead of letting the server deliver the requested file. Is there a way to tell joomla not to do this, or do I have to change the redirection rule? Or is it just not possible to do 200 file redirects with ReDJ?

Regards,
Paula

Hi Luigi,

thank you very much for your explanation. The reason not to choose 301 or 307 is that the visitors shall not see the directory the file is really in but only the requested URL. Do I get it right, to reach this I have to redirect in .htaccess with mod_redirect?

Paula