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Posted by Paul Furman on 07/11/07 00:14
NC wrote:
> On Jul 10, 3:56 pm, Paul Furman <p...@-edgehill.net> wrote:
>
>>I want to have urls that work like the php.net
>>pages where there's just a word after a slash,
>>maybe a few folders deep.
>
> This has almost nothing to do with PHP.
OK so no considerations for my php coding? I'm passing paths every which
way, that'd be great if I didn't have to update any of that.
> This is a HTTP server-level
> problem. Apache has a module called mod_rewrite, which can be
> configured to accomplish what you want:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
>
>>Right now I've got urls & code like this:
>>http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California
>>
>>But I'd prefer:
>>http://www.edgehill.net/California
>
>>I'd like to see at most:
>>http://www.edgehill.net/California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/
>
> If your hosting company allows .htaccess files, add these lines to
> your .htaccess file in the site's root directory:
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^California(.*)$ /1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California$1 [NC,L]
>
> This should do the trick.
Looks cool, from what I can tell, the only thing to learn is the syntax
& rule evaluating order. Sounds like I could set up however big an
htaccess file to identify my simplified structure but maybe at some
point it would take a hit on performance... or not if I figure out how
to tell it to stop searching the rule list. Maybe the 'index' I talked
about before would become a long well-sorted rule list that I run
through php after making updates to regenerate the index?
<http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco>
becomes
<http://www.edgehill.net/San-Francisco>
-this type I'd have to generate by choice
<http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/San-Francisco/neighborhoods/2007-06-19-stanyan&PG=1&PIC=1>
becomes
<http://www.edgehill.net/2007-06-19-stanyan/1/1>
-this type I'd like to generate automatically, if I had a repeat named
subfolder that would cripple it, but that's a rare situation. Each
addition to the photo library sits under some number of folders with a
name like: '2007-06-19-location' sometimes only with the date in which
case the indexer would build something like 'stanyan/2007-06-19'.
This should also maintain the old navagation system, as soon as someone
hits a full archive path, the url will convert to whatever shortcut
overrides in the htaccess file as long as it's indexed. If it's not an
indexed folder yet, it reads as is. It's possible I could create dead
end folders with no links to them but not normally a problem.
--
Paul Furman Photography
http://www.edgehill.net/1
Bay Natives Nursery
http://www.baynatives.com
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