URL rewriting - rewriting the url to be pretty no possible?

Question

HI,
I'm trying to rewrite a url for an Oracle portal site, in the following manner, eg:
www.xyz.com/portal/page/portal/contact-us => www.xyz.com/contact-us
I've been able to do the passing through, so that www.xyz.com/contact-us links through to the /portal/page/portal/contact-us with the following rules
<VirtualHost *:7778>
ServerName blahblah.xyz.com
Port 7777
DocumentRoot "/oracle/oas/SOMEFOLDER/Apache/Apache/htdocs"
#DirectoryIndex labelled.htm
Alias /developments/ "/oracle/share/SOMEFOLDER/developments/"
Alias /attributes/ "/oracle/share/propertygenie/shared/attributes/"
<snip Aliases.....>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/portal/page/portal/SOMETHING/.*$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /portal/page/portal/SOMETHING/$1 [PT]
<SNIP .... />
</VirtualHost>
This is mirrored by a rule in config section. where /portal/page/portal/SOMETHING/ is replaced by /
When i replace the RewriteCond with a rewrite rule, as follows, I get errors:
RewriteRule ^/portal/page/portal/SOMETHING/(.*)$ /$1 [R]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /portal/page/portal/SOMETHING/$1 [PT]
I would expect the above to rewrite the url if it starts with /portal/page/portal/SOMETHING/ and then pass it through on the backend.
What am I doing wrong?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Haitham,
There is more than one way to do this as per this link below, someone has already posted sometime ago on this forum.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/ps789/products_configuration_example09186a00801de8d6.shtml
owner example
content default-redirect
port 80
protocol tcp
vip address 192.168.1.1
url "www.example.com/*"
redirect "www.example.com/test/home.htm"
active
thanks