New Contest - win some easy money

[Dude]

Ok, nobody read my computer help post, so I have decided to make this the first contest.

the winner of this easy question below needs to post a working solution to the problem in this thread,

by working solution I mean that I can copy and paste your answer and it will make the 1st page redirect to the 2nd page, and only the first page, (if you just redirect all pages or a bunch of pages, that does not count).

the first person to answer it correctly gets $5.00 by paypal.

here is the question: I am trying to add a redirect to my

.htaccess file

this is what I have:

rewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^http://www.hundredbling.net/index.php?act=rssout&id=1$ http://www.hundredbling.net/external.php?type=RSS2

anyone familiar with the apache rewrite engine can see that this will obviously not work to forward the link because some of the characters are not correct, missing, or not in the right format.

The frist person to post the correct answer in this thread, of how to get apache to forward this link, wins the contest.

[skysetunfold]

im not good at this, but you want the url http://www.hundredbling.net/index.php?act=rssout&id=1$ to be redirected to http://www.hundredbling.net/external.php?type=RSS2??

[Dude]

yes that's correct.

[skysetunfold]

Redirect http://www.hundredbling.net/index.php?act=rssout&id=1$ http://www.hundredbling.net/external.php?type=RSS2

wouldnt that work?

[Dude]

Well I couldn't make the contest quite that easy, not much fun in that. :)

nope, sorry it doesn't work.

[jnguyen]

5 bucks ehh ?

[Dude]

well when you figure it's for only typing a couple of characters, it's not bad money.

[Dude]

ok, I am going to give you a hint. the character "." has a special meaning that screws up the command... so you have to replace it with "\." that makes it work...
so now your more than half way to the answer.

but it looks like no one either want's 5 bucks in their paypal account, or cares, or maybe all the people who know the answer just don't want to bother to type it in.

anyway, this is an apache command, anyone who knows anything about apache server software would be able to answer this question in less than 2 seconds. So here is a hint for the people who don't know apache commands, if you type some of these words in google you will get pages of sites full of people who know the answer. If you go to one of those sites and post a link to www.hundredbling.net and they answer your question.

then your the first to post the answer here with the location of the link you posted when you got the answer, then you get $5.00 for the answer and $5.00 for the link.

And I guess it's not fair if the staff here answers the question so they can't win the prize.

[kevinleclair]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^act=rssout&id=1 [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ h**p://feedproxy.google.com/sdsb? [R=301,L]

Editor..change ** to tt. The live link above leads to zip.

Please send the money to my paypal account at info [at] seadoosportboats [dot] com. Thanks!

[Webscout]

Good thing Elmer did not put a timeline on this contest...for the winner that is.

[Hobbyist]

Good thing Elmer did not put a timeline on this contest
Bwahahah Sept 2006... do we keep archives that long??? Sure hope Kevin didn't spend the whole time thinking about it :-)