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you don't need to do a mod_rewrite thing, btw, just do:

  ServerName whatever.com

  Redirect permanent / http://www.whatever.com/

</VirtualHost>

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That either doesn't redirect "deep" links, or it redirects them to the start page.

Got any proof of a case where this happens? I'm using it to redirect to https:// and it redirects deep links to the right deep links, and nothing goes to the home page

I'm running it on my personal site and all links work as intended

Honestly, if you're running on a simple Apache config, you almost certainly don't need to worry about any of the technical issues the article raises.

If your service requires scaling because it's expensive dynamic content, then apache could easily be fast enough and not the bottleneck requiring a switch to something else.

It doesn't matter if nginx/whatever can handle 1000+ reqs/sec if your app consumes 300MB of ram per request and takes 1 second to process.

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