htaccess modrewrite help

Delzhand

I'm trying to modify a .htaccess file so that if a user goes to admin/login, they see the page that's normally available at /user, but with the admin/login url. Is that possible? People who go to /user should see the normal page without a changed url.

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Whether or not you can do this depends on what you believe "a user" to be (compared to someone who would see the "real" admin/login page)

(I'm curious about the "why" of this though. I'm not sure this is a problem that mod_rewrite should be handling)

mrcheesypants

Any reason why you aren't doing this at the application level? Perhaps I don't quite understand the question, but usually for user permissions you need to use cookies which shouldn't/can't(as far as I know) be redirected via htaccess.

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I think you can redirect based on the presence of a cookie, but it does sound wrong and woefully incomplete (you're still going to want to do deeper inspection of the cookie on the application side), doesn't it.

On the other hand, I don't know that what the OP is asking for isn't for something like an IP address based check.