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Started by Thevenin April 19, 2006 08:40 PM

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Thevenin

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April 19, 2006 08:40 PM

I had this figured out a long whiles ago, but I completely forget how to do it. I'm trying to mod_rewrite the following via Apache's mod_rewrite mod. (Without showing the changes in the client's URL bar)


http://127.0.0.1 to become
   http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Home

http://127.0.0.1/Forum to become
   http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Forum


http://127.0.0.1/Forum/3 to become
   http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Thread&T=3

All I can come up with so far is this..

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/News /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=News [nc]

... which doesn't work at all. =/ [Edited by - Thevenin on April 20, 2006 3:40:23 PM]

Tesseract

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April 20, 2006 09:37 AM

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Anonymous

April 20, 2006 02:11 PM

RewriteRule ^news$ cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=News [NC,L]

Thevenin

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April 20, 2006 03:23 PM

I've tried a bunch of combinations now, and the only one that works is providing the full URL (http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=) for the redirection.

eg...

Doesn't Work
RewriteRule ^news$ cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=News [NC,L]

Works
RewriteRule ^/news$ http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=News [NC,L]

Any ideas?

silencer-

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April 20, 2006 09:12 PM

Sorry, I assumed that you were using .htaccess for the directives (which you should, for ease of portability).

Redirections within the server configuration file require that paths be absolute. Directory configuration, on the other hand, allows relative paths.

As a side note, I'd only glanced over your first post. What you're trying to do (encapsulate all URL requests) is extremely difficult to manage. Optimally, instead of hiding the user request from the script, it should be supporting its own URL format specification (as it is currently, but with the ugly URLs).

Nevertheless, it is possible to implement a limited redirect sequence.

RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^/forum/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Thread&T=$1 [QSA,NC]# Should be caught in the dispatcher (change the last rule's plus sign to an asterisk).RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Home# Rather than explicitly setting each requestable page, allow the script to determine the request validity.RewriteRule ^/([^.]+)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=$1 [QSA,L]

silencer-

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April 20, 2006 09:32 PM

This is much less ugly. Hopefully it works.

RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=HomeRewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/forum/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Thread&T=$1 [QSA,NC]RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=$1 [QSA]RewriteRule ^/([^.]*)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/$1 [N,QSA,L]

Thevenin

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April 20, 2006 11:10 PM

Adhering to your advice (somewhat), I...

Configured my apache conf to 'AllowOverride All'

Created a file in my htdocs directory called ".htaccess", inside it contains...

Quote:RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/([^.]*)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/$1 [N,QSA,L]

I browsed to my cgi-bin folder and added the file ".htaccess" to it, inside this file contains...

Quote:
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Home
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/forum/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=Thread&T=$1 [QSA,NC]
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi/(.*)$ /cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=$1 [QSA]

Restarted Apache, browsed to "127.0.0.1/home", and got "The requested URL /home was not found on this server.".

Thevenin

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April 20, 2006 11:35 PM

Heck even putting this..

Quote:RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/Fleurin.cgi?P=News [L]

In my htdocs (My home directory) doesn't even work. Am I missing the bigger picture?

Sander

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April 21, 2006 12:30 AM

Are .htaccess files allowed in your apache? Some apache packages ship with .htaccess functionality turned off. Also, on windows servers it's usually htaccess (without the .)

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Thevenin

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April 21, 2006 01:20 AM

Quote:Original post by Sander
Are .htaccess files allowed in your apache? Some apache packages ship with .htaccess functionality turned off.

Apache 2.0.55(Win32); downloaded from their homepage.

Quote:Original post by Sander
Also, on windows servers it's usually htaccess (without the .)

AccessFileName .htaccess

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