Need help serving a static page from manila site

[Brent Simmons]

One way to handle this -- you could use the redirect responder to redirect
requests to a URL on an Apache server.

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-Brent


On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Leslie Snively wrote:

> 	I need to serve a single, static image with it's own URL from an
> existing manila site.  The manila GDB needs to remain accessible as well
> during the month or so that the static image will be served.  The URL
> has been published in numerous places, so I can't pick another URL at
> this time, nor can I change the URL of the main site.  (Yes, I goofed in
> selecting the URL - poor choice done in too big a hurry.)  The image URL
> has to be:
>
> http://www.mydomainname.com/wm,
>
> while the main site at http://www.mydomainname.com must behave at it
> presently does.  (There's no polymorphism between the static image name
> and anything in the manila site.)  The image should not be placed in the
> main site template, just served raw.  If there's a way to redirect the
> call for that page, I can serve it from Apache if that would be easier,
> or it can be served from Frontier.  Performance is not a big issue since
> the site will not be heavily used.
> 	Any suggestions on how I can accomplish this, or whether it's
> possible?  I've tried several approaches and so far none have worked,
> though I don't think I've been very clever, or even very competent about
> it so far.  I'm way out of practice with Manila, so things that might
> have been obvious a year ago are not now.  Thanks in advance for any
> ideas.
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