How to redirect (or Alias) jump page with Apache

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Published on 2010-05-13T18:13:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 18:25 UTC
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I'm not an Apache expert but need to make a small change to a web server. We are introducing a "jump page" URL that is different from a primary URL (for tracking reasons).

/productA/index.html
/productA/jump_index.html

Basically i want to log that jump_index.html was requested and then return index.html. I don't want the client to wait 8 seconds or so for a redirect.

How should we be handling this? Simply symlink (or alias) the file in the filesystem? Use mod_alias Alias Match (if so how exactly)? something better still?

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