Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 05/19/06 05:21

In article <Xns97C7ADE08B5D0httpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251>,
Neredbojias <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> says...
(Dang SeaMonkey is not posting again so back to Gravity)

> > Not surprising, they are a rare breed, < 100 registered with the AKC
> > each year. They are basically a rabbit dog, for hunting without a gun
> > in rocky, hilly, scrubby land of the Belaric Islands off of Spain.
> > Catch and retrieve prey--many times live. I've got a picture around
> > here somewhere of one of ours bringing a *live* young wild turkey to
> > the house. Caused a little pandemonium in the living room!
>
> Wow, that is rare. I used to, uh, help raise chihuahuas when they were
> considered semi-rare. (-Don't ask...)

Chihuahuas, now they are vicious little beggars!

>
> One time in college I went out on a buddy's dad's farm before Thankgiving
> to "gather" turkeys for the holiday. Yeah, right... A suit of armor
> wouldn't have been too much protection.

Really? I've raise chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. Geese were by far
the most troublesome, turkeys well they sort of live up to their name!

>
> > Everything was fine until they 'upgraded' their servers about 2 years
> > ago (major expansion?). They now have some strange config where the
> > static content is handled by one set of servers and dynamic on others.
> > The result reared its ugly head when my 404 handling script failed.
> > Redirects cannot be done without a full URL so that a dynamic URL
> > rewritten to appear as a static URL will not work, the real dynamic
> > one will always appear in the address bar. Kinda blows with current
> > trends to interface with a MySQL database! SO I am hosting hunting...
>
> The worst part about the whole thing from my point of view is I only
> vaguely understand it... I kinda get the dynamic vs. static thing but
> not the "...dynamic URL rewritten to appear as static..." This could be
> because my brain is dynamic except when it gets a lot of static.
>

What I mean by static vs dynamic is to a static page like:

www.somedomain.com/somepage.html

where as one can use CGI to dynamically generate a page or pull from a
database:

www.somedomain.com/catalog.cgi?partno=abc123&size=3

Now normally you can take dynamically created pages like:

www.somedomain.com/articles.php?topic=widgets&date=20060412

and with a .htaccess write the url to give the appearance of a static
url:

^articles/([a-z].*)/[\d]* article.php?topic=$1&date=$2 [L]

and the url becomes:

www.somedomain.com/article/widgets/20060412

Much nicer, but I cannot do this on FatCow the way the have their servers
configured

--

Jonathan

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