[BlueOnyx:10285] Re: RewriteRule problem

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Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:33 PM
Subject: [BlueOnyx:10282] Re: RewriteRule problem


> Hi DD,
>
>> In my /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/siteXX.include file I have:
>>
>>   RewriteEngine On
>>   RewriteRule ^/([a-z\-]+).html$ /index.php?stub=$1
>>
>> The idea is that a URL such as /hello-world.html becomes
>> /index.php?stub=hello-world and the content can be pulled from a DB.
>>
>> I'm getting a 404 for known values of stub in the "blah.html" format URL,
>> but if I try it directly via "index.php?stub=blah" it's fine.
>
> Your regular expression ^/([a-z\-]+).html$ is a bit flawed, sorry.
>
> This works better:
>
> ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+).html$
>
> ^ = Match beginning of the line
> a-z = lower case letters
> A-Z  = upper case letters
> 0-9   = numbers
> _ = underscores
> - = minus sign
> .html$ = must have .html at the very end of the input.
>
> Part of the problem there is that the RewriteRule's in siteXX.include 
> files
> trigger only after the "file not found" rules.
>
> To counter that, put rewrite rules like this in a .htaccess file in your 
> /web
> folder.
>
>> I've used AllowOverride to move the rule to a .htaccess file in the 
>> site's
>> /web/ folder. I've deleted the site and recreated it, restarted Apache 
>> and
>> eventually the server too, all to no avail.
>
> I see. I just tried it myself and here is what I got to work in an 
> .htaccess
> file:
>
> Example 1:
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+).html$     /index.php?stub=$1
>
> When you access http://www.site.com/hello.html, the URL in the browser 
> will
> not change. But the content is served off index.php?stub=hello
>
> Example 2:
>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+).html$ http://www.site.com/index.php?stub=$1
> [L,R=301]
>
> When you access http://www.site.com/hello.html, the URL in the browser 
> will
> change to http://www.site.com/index.php?stub=hello and the page is served 
> from
> there.
>
> -- 
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
> _______________________________________________
Is there a way to redirect from and to a URL using .htaccess?
Everything i do gets a 500 and i end up using php to redirect..

Thanks
David Hahn