diff --git a/public_html/admin/index.php b/public_html/admin/index.php
index 4a33f0cce1cc22a2aaea8e08e0546c991ed97fcc..84ce99ed721881572723597c4c27116c942de2a2 100644
--- a/public_html/admin/index.php
+++ b/public_html/admin/index.php
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
  * admin: list all defined redirections
  * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  * 2022-02-03  v0.1  <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>  initial version 
+ * 2022-05-21  v0.2  <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>  optical changes; use debugredirect=1 if url is a local domain
  * ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
 
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ if (!$oR->isEnabled()){
     $sUrl=(isset($_GET['url']) && $_GET['url']) ? $_GET['url'] : '';
 
     if ($sUrl){
-        $sResult=$oR->httpGet($sUrl.'?debugredirect=1',1);
+        $sResult=$oR->httpGet($sUrl,1);
         echo '<h2>Response of a http HEAD request to '.$aIco['url'].' <a href="'.$sUrl.'">'.$sUrl.'</a></h2>'
             . $oR->renderHttpResponseHeader($sResult, 1)
             ;
@@ -80,7 +81,6 @@ if (!$oR->isEnabled()){
         exit(0);
     }
 
-
     $sMyIp=gethostbyname($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
     if(!$sMyIp){
         $sErrors.='<li>Ip address of current host ['.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'] was not found.</li>';
@@ -130,7 +130,9 @@ if (!$oR->isEnabled()){
             .'<td>'
                 .'<span style="display: none">'.$sHost.'</span>'
                 .$aIco['type_'.$aCfg['type']]
-            .' <a href="?url=http://'.$sHost.'/" title="click to test http://'.$sHost.'/" onclick="showInOverlay(this); return false;">'.$sHost.'</a></td>'
+                .' <a href="?url=http://'.$sHost.'/'
+                    .($aCfg['ip']===$sMyIp ? '?debugredirect=1' : '' )
+                    .'" title="click to test http://'.$sHost.'/" onclick="showInOverlay(this); return false;">'.$sHost.'</a></td>'
             .'<td>'
                 .($aCfg['ip'] 
                     ? ($aCfg['ip']===$sMyIp
@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ if (!$oR->isEnabled()){
             .'<td>'
             .($aCfg['type']=="config"
                 ? '<a href="?cfgfile=redirects_'.$sHost.'.json" onclick="showInOverlay(this); return false;" title="show config for host '.$sHost.'">'.$aCfg['type'].'</a> '
-                : $aCfg['type']
+                : '<a href="?cfgfile=redirects_'.$aCfg['target'].'.json" onclick="showInOverlay(this); return false;" title="show config for alias '.$sHost.' pointing to host '.$aCfg['target'].'">'.$aCfg['type'].'</a> '
             )
             . '</td>'
             ;
diff --git a/public_html/admin/main.css b/public_html/admin/main.css
index 55c639c29df54fd87fddcd6416395acebf62b5ca..54004d495cabdec76a02d7a2d22a940d64197941 100644
--- a/public_html/admin/main.css
+++ b/public_html/admin/main.css
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@ a{color:royalblue;}
 body{background: #f8f8f8; color: #234; font-family: arial; margin: 0;}
 h1{background:rgba(0,0,0,0.05); margin: 0 0 1em;; padding: 0.5em;}
 h1 a{color:#234; text-decoration: none;}
-h2{background:rgba(0,0,0,0.02);  color:#458; margin: 1em 0 0.5em; border-top: 2px solid #fff; border-left: 5px solid #fff; border-top-left-radius: 0.5em; padding: 0.5em; }
+h2{background: #d0e0e8;  color:#458; margin: 1em 0 0.5em; border-top: 2px solid #fff; border-left: 5px solid #fff; border-top-left-radius: 0.5em; padding: 0.5em; }
 
-pre{background: rgba(0,0,0,0.02);padding: 0.3em 1em; border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1); margin-bottom: 2em;}
+pre{background: rgba(0,0,0,0.02);padding: 0.3em 1em; border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1); margin: 2em 0 3em;; border-bottom: 2px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.2);}
 
 tr:hover{background: #f4f0f8 !important;}
 
 .content{margin: 0 1em;}
 .error{background: #fcc;}
+.warning{color:#651; background:#fec;}
 
 .cfgtype-alias{color:#89a;}
 .http-301::after{color:#a55; content: ' (Moved Permanently)'}
@@ -18,14 +19,15 @@ tr:hover{background: #f4f0f8 !important;}
 .type-direct{color:#383; }
 .type-regex{color:#838; }
 
-.status{padding: 0.5em 1em; position: relative;top: -0.8em; border: 2px solid; border-left: 1.5em solid;}
+.status{padding: 0.5em 1em; position: relative;top: -0.8em; border-left: 2px solid; border-left_: 1.5em solid;font-size: 125%;}
 .status-ok{color:#080; background:#cec; }
 .status-redirect{color:#651; background:#fec;}
 .status-error{color:#800; background:#ecc;}
 
-.location{background:#fec;}
+.location{background:#cde; border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.2); font-size: 125%; color:#236;}
+.location::before{content:' > '; color:#800; background-color: #fff;}
 .debug{color:#197;}
 
 .overlay{position: fixed; margin: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; background: rgba(0,0,0,0.3);overflow: scroll; display: none;}
-.overlay>div{margin: 3% 10%; background: #fff; padding: 1em;box-shadow: 0 0 3em #000; }
+.overlay>div{margin: 3% 10%; background: #f8f8f8; padding: 1em;box-shadow: 0 0 3em #000; }
 
diff --git a/public_html/classes/redirect.admin.class.php b/public_html/classes/redirect.admin.class.php
index 333cea8e67862ec731b8568b7e4c040b8423fa4c..b98b634ac6d5d10f3556a75e581cca321ef6bb34 100644
--- a/public_html/classes/redirect.admin.class.php
+++ b/public_html/classes/redirect.admin.class.php
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ require_once 'redirect.class.php';
  * 2020-05-11  v1.4  ah  rewrite as class
  * 2022-02-03  v1.5  ah  add method isEnabled
  * 2022-05-23  v1.6  ah  add http head check+render output; 
+ * 2022-05-31  v1.7  ah  optical changes
  */
 
 /**
@@ -31,7 +32,6 @@ class redirectadmin extends redirect {
             CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
             CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
             CURLOPT_USERAGENT => strip_tags($this->sAbout),
-            // CURLOPT_USERPWD => isset($this->aProfileEffective['userpwd']) ? $this->aProfileEffective['userpwd'] : false,
             CURLOPT_VERBOSE => false,
             CURLOPT_ENCODING => 'gzip, deflate',  // to fetch encoding
             CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
@@ -43,10 +43,6 @@ class redirectadmin extends redirect {
             // TODO: this is unsafe .. better: let the user configure it
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => false,
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
-            // CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS => false,
-            // v0.22 cookies
-            CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => $this->sCcookieFilename,
-            CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => $this->sCcookieFilename,
             CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 5,
         );
         return $aReturn;
@@ -102,7 +98,7 @@ class redirectadmin extends redirect {
 
             $sReturn=($iHops>0
                 ? 'Found hops: <strong>'.$iHops.'</strong>'
-                    .($iHops>1 ? ' ⚠️ Verify your redirect to skip unneeded hops.' : '' ).'<br><br>'    
+                    .($iHops>1 ? ' <span class="warning"> ⚠️ Verify your redirect to skip unneeded hops.</span>' : '' ).'<br><br>'
                 : ''
                 ).$sReturn
                 ;