Im using static URLs... I wish to change to dynamic.

I have a question before I do.
On the database field URL I use a "short" url that points to that exact page.
Example:
Original pagelocation: http://www.site.com/details/something/something/page_11L.html
Short url placed, shown and self linked within the detailed page: http://www.site.com/name

This way people can publish on personal visit card or newspaper or magazine their "short" link.

Question, if I change to dynamic will the mod rewrite affect that link? Its not simple text, its also linked to itsself, so the link exists.
I dont want it to change to http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?whatever...

Will it afect it? And if so, how can I prevent it.

Thanks in advance,

Juan Carlos

Hi,

Mmm.. I'm not quite sure how this could be approached.

If you had something like:

yoursite.com/p/short_bit

... then you could use:

RewriteRule ^p/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/paper.cgi?name=$1 [L]

Then, make a new script called paper.cgi, that gets the "ID" of the link, based on the "name" passed in.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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