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Posted by Paul Furman on 07/17/07 01:46
Hi, can someone help me with consulting to migrate to a RewriteEngine
configuration? This looks like more than I can bite off, I could use
some help.
Thanks,
Paul
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
> I'd suggest you try asking in alt.apache.configuration. That's where
> those gurus hang out.
> Paul Furman wrote:
>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Hence, the links:
>>>
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
>>
>> Ack... regular expressions!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Anyone interested in a little consulting to get me up to speed on a
>> basic framework for this system, please email. I've got a couple web
>> sites that could use this upgrade but it's beyond me for now to even
>> get a basic effect to take hold with .htaccess on the first one I tried.
>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> That's actually easy; you put [L] (meaning, "last") after the rule.
>>> If Apache executes a rule with [L] after it, it stops looking for
>>> other rules to execute.
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