Posted by Paul Furman on 07/17/07 00:35

NC wrote:
> On Jul 10, 5:14 pm, Paul Furman <pa...@-edgehill.net> wrote:
>
>>OK so no considerations for my php coding?
>
>
> None whatsoever.
>
>
>>>>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.
>
> Cheers,
> NC
>


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