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Sep 12, 2004, 6:08 AM

Dinky

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Sep 12, 2004, 6:08 AM

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mod_rewrite rules

Just wanted to let you guys know i'm teed off at you..
This board got me started on how to do mod rewrite/rules, etc... and have not had any sleep for about 28 hours... going to bed now,
mod_rewrite, what a wonderful thing!!

Cool

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Sep 12, 2004, 6:16 AM

minesite

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Sep 12, 2004, 6:16 AM

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Re: [Dinky] mod_rewrite rules In reply to

After all that did you get it working ?

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minesite

Sep 12, 2004, 6:32 AM

Dinky

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Sep 12, 2004, 6:32 AM

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Yep,

completely redid my site, now working on my forums..
I know, said I was going to bed...
Crazy

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Sep 12, 2004, 6:46 AM

Dinky

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Sep 12, 2004, 6:46 AM

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Now another question about rewrites...
Is there any way to have a rewrite set up so if someone was to type in http://www.mysite.com/bob
and bob is not one of your directories, instead of going to an error page, it would redirct to your search.cgi in a query and return http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=bob instead???

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Sep 12, 2004, 7:29 AM

webmaster33

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Sep 12, 2004, 7:29 AM

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Code:
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond     %{REQUEST_URI}         !-d 
RewriteRule      ^.+/(.+)/$ http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=$1 [R,L]

Try tris rewrite rule.
It should work, but not tested... use with care...

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Sep 13, 2004, 1:58 AM

Andy

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Sep 13, 2004, 1:58 AM

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Re: [Dinky] mod_rewrite rules In reply to

I use this on my sites;

Code:
RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=$1

This seems to work fine;

http://www.cool-clipart.com/search/ball

Be aware though, that you need to probably use this code in error.html too;

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=271830#271830

Basically, just do something like;

<%build_root_url%>/search/<%GT::CGI::escape($query)%>

Hope that helps :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 13, 2004, 4:27 AM

webmaster33

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Sep 13, 2004, 4:27 AM

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Well, Dinky wants such solution, that if a user asks for an unexisting directory, then do a search on his site with the name of the directory.

Unfortunately there seems to be a small bug in my rewrite rule. If
http://www.mysite.com/bob
is entered, should work fine.

But if
http://www.mysite.com/bob/house/door
is entered, then it will use 'bob/house/door' for keyword in Search:
http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=bob/house/door'

So I'm thinking, that a script based rewrite rule would be needed, where the needed actions can be done. But this is much slower, than using the built-in regexps, especially, if script is executed in CGI mode, and in not Persistent Environment.

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