mod_rewrite not working with vhost.conf file

[shobet]

Hi, I've googled and searched the docs but have been unable to find an answer to my problem. I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing but my brain can't see it.

What I'm trying to do is the following:
I want the specific URL

http://www.myserver.org/adirectory

to be rewritten to

http://www.myserver.org/some/other/directory

but all other traffic to work as normal.

Here's a copy of the vhost.conf file I'm using.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName

http://www.myserver.org

# Rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^

http://www\.myserver\.org$

RewriteRule ^/adirectory$ /some/other/directory [R]
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /

http://server.domain.net:8834/

ProxyPassReverse /

http://server.domain.net:8824/

ErrorDocument 502

http://errors.domain.net/502.php

ErrorDocument 503

http://errors.domain.net/503.php

</VirtualHost>

The proxying works fine, but whatever I attempt I can't get the rewrite for that particular URL to work.

Any advice will be appreciated.

 

[RhythmAce]

If you just want traffic to one directory to be redirected, it may be simpler to just put an htaccess file in that directory and send all traffic to the newdir. For example:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^$ /newdir/

This way you don't have to mess with conditions or restart apache every time you want to try something different.

 

[shobet]

I was hoping to keeping it all within the vhost.conf file.