Comments on: Practical Mod_Rewrite for Web Developers

By: Haldun Bayrak

Haldun Bayrak — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:52:11 +0000

Hi, Thank for the nice prof. information shared with us! I was looking find a way to mask folder and file name seen in the URL after de domain address/ (http://www.test.mysite.com/Folder/subfolder/index.php?modname=xxxx&op=yyyyy). Just to fix and show the static address (http://www.test.mysite.com/)what ever the user is browsing. Can you help…

Best regards

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:09:01 +0000

Thanks for the article. I’m a mod-rewrite newbie struggling with an issue…

I have a current URL:
http://www.mysite.com/blah/page.php?specialcode=123456

I want to redirect all attempts to blah/ to http://www.mysite.com/new/index.php?page=new-page&specialcode=123456 and want to retain the special code included in the initial URL and write it into the new.

The site has been re-written in a mini-MVC model and I need to convert traffic going to the old pages to the new model. I can do this in PHP, but want to completely get rid of blah/ and never look at it again.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick
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By: augmentedfourth

augmentedfourth — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:49:39 +0000

Well, I got it working. It turns out that I just needed to set "AllowOverride all" in my VirtualHost configuration. The rule I wrote earlier did work one the module was properly in place. In addition, I'm also now using mod_rewrite to redirect the root URL to blogspot instead of the header tag. After some testing, I've discovered that the 301 redirect preserves the referrer information when passing the visitor to the blog, so I don't need the augmentedfourth.com index.htm to keep track of referring links anymore. Thanks for posting this guide, which was exactly what I needed to finally get me started on this project in the first place! augmentedfourthâ€™s last blog post..My (brief) adventures with AppleTV

By: augmentedfourth

augmentedfourth — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:37:27 +0000

I tried with just the "rewrite without www" rule first; it didn't seem to work. I guess I just have to troubleshoot mod_rewrite before I can do fun stuff with it... augmentedfourthâ€™s last blog post..Geek Code update

By: augmentedfourth

augmentedfourth — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:37:09 +0000

I tried with just the "rewrite without www" rule first; it didn't seem to work. I guess I just have to troubleshoot mod_rewrite before I can do fun stiff with it... augmentedfourthâ€™s last blog post..Geek Code update

By: snipe

snipe — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:29:12 +0000

Hi augmentedfourth – can you set up something simple first to make sure mod_rewrite is working properly?

By: augmentedfourth

augmentedfourth — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:00:58 +0000

I determined that all the blogspot URLs begin with the year, so it made for what seemed like an easy filter. Here’s the full text of the .htaccess in my webroot:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^augmentedfourth\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://augmentedfourth.com/$1 [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^\/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\/.*

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Based on this, going to “http://www.augmentedfourth.com/2008/11/dr-fun.html” should first rewrite without the www and send to blogspot, right? It doesn’t.

The relevant line loading mod_rewrite in my apache2 configs is:
LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so
(I’m running Ubuntu Server Edition.)

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By: Japh

Japh — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:24:48 +0000

This is an awesome article, Alison. Just linked to it in a relevant thread on TheWebSqueeze.com

Questions about mod_rewrite seem to come up quite regularly, and I’ve now found a good explanation to send people to

Thanks!

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By: snipe

snipe — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:09:18 +0000

It also ate my ifmodule mod_rewrite.c reference… should have read:

“t would look something like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /redirect.php

This would NOT be inside the *ifmodule mod_rewrite.c* statement, since it’s not actually mod_rewrite at all – it’s just a standard apache directive.”

By: snipe

snipe — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:08:09 +0000

Erg.. sorry for the weird linky stuff… wordpress doesn’t like when you use php tags in the comments.