Need mod_rewrite settings

Can /bob/ look like /bob/foo  or /b.o.b./ or /bob147/, too? In other words: Do you expect only characters from a-z followed by an optional slash?

Hadn't thought much of it, but I'm going to restrict them to a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and dash, underscore.

It should probably accept a trailing slash though as many people are going to type it that way anyway.

if dash and underscore make it excessively difficult I can do without those.

Thanks

No, that's no problem. The only thing is that I'd like to create a RegEx vhich matches not too nuch, because the order of processing is regex of the rewriteRule --> Conditions. So it's better that requests which should not be processed don't run into the conditions (performance)


I don't check for existing files here (!-f), because I expect that all files have an extension (=contain a period).

RewriteEngine on
# is not a directory
RewriteRule %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# the A-Z is being caught by the NC flag (compiles the regEx case-intensive)
RewriteRule ^([a-z_-]+)/?$ /index.php?aff=$1 [NC,L]

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oh, I forgot the numbers so it should read

RewriteEngine on
# is not a directory
RewriteRule %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# the A-Z is being caught by the NC flag (compiles the regEx case-intensive)
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)/?$ /index.php?aff=$1 [NC,L]

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It looks like it's doing the rewrite, but there's a serious side effect...

It's breaking links to all external files (javascript, images, stylesheets)

http://www.stockpublishing.com/asdfasdfafdasdf/

NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.59:80



        DocumentRoot /www/stock/
       
                allow from all
                Options +Indexes

                RewriteEngine on
                # is not a directory
                RewriteRule %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
                # the A-Z is being caught by the NC flag (compiles the regEx case-intensive)
                RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)/?$ /index.php?aff=$1 [NC,L]

       
        ServerName stockpublishing.com

The unintended side effect to this was my 404 page is never triggered because everything matches, but oh well.  I'll just query the db and if I don't get a match to aff=, then I'll redir to the 404.

Thanks!

HEH, btw, I have no idea what all of that means, but it works! Thanks!

You can check this with mod_rewrite as well: Since you have access to the httpd.conf you can use a rewriteMap, an external eg. perl script, which queries the database. You could use php as well, but usually php is compiled not to work for requests on shell.

> then I'll redir to the 404.

but make sure that you send a 404 header (php header function), a redirect/Location header (302/301) to a not found page may irritate search engines.

You could possibly also try something like this as well...

Options +FollowSymLinks 
 
RewriteEngine On 
 
# If it's not a request to an existing file 
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f 
# or directory 
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d 
# rewrite /$1/ to /index.php?aff=$1 
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?aff=$1 [QSA,L]

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But his "aff" values don't contain a period, so a RegEx [^/]+ matches more than needed. The problem are not existing files in th filesystem but aff values which does not exist in the database, e.g. /something/

I just realized, it's matching folders that do exist, so even though there is a /join folder, it's still sending me to ?aff=join
Any ideas?

Oh, it's been to late.

Change        RewriteRule /www/stock/$1/ !-d
into

       RewriteCond /www/stock/$1/ !-d

sory.

THAT WAS IT!