(Simple) mod_rewrite question

[k3pp0]

Hello.

I'm trying to make use of "pretty URLs" with Apache's rewrite module.

Here's what I want:

http://foo.bar/index.php?download

should be replaced with

http://foo.bar/download

My .htaccess looks like that:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php

In the index.php I look at $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and act
accordingly:

$requestedURI = empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? false :
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

switch($request edURI) {
case "/download":
include "download.p hp";
break;
default:
// do something
break;

}

This works if I go to http://foo.bar/download - it shows index.php
with the included download.php file. But if I go to http://foo.bar/download/
(with a slash at the end of the URL) it doesn't do anything (default
case of switch($request edURI)), because "/download" != "/download/".

To solve this I could just make two cases: case "/download" and case
"/
download/", but I don't really like this solution, if there's a
better
one, please tell me.

Let's take it I use the method with the two cases ("/download" and "/
download/"), there's another problem:
In the index.php I've included a stylesheet: "<link rel="stylesheet "
type="text/css" href="main.css" />". As you can see, I use a relative
link to the css file. So if I call http://foo.bar/download, it loads
the css file from http://foo.bar/main.css, but if I enter http://foo.bar/download/
(with the slash) it can't find the css file, because it tries to
locate it at http://foo.bar/download/main.css, but of course, there
is
no main.css, /download/ is not even a directory... How do I fix this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Guillaume]

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

k3pp0 a écrit :

RewriteRule (.*) index.php

Why don't you just do it the other way ?
Something like that should just work, without needing to parse the URL:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)[/]?$ index.php?$1 [L]

Then you can add more conditions, specific directories not to parse,
sub-directories, etc... Depends on what your goal is.
You should not need any PHP parsing when using URL rewriting imo.

Regards,
--
Guillaume

[Jeremy]

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

k3pp0 wrote:

>
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>
This works if I go to http://foo.bar/download - it shows index.php
with the included download.php file. But if I go to http://foo.bar/download/
(with a slash at the end of the URL) it doesn't do anything (default
case of switch($request edURI)), because "/download" != "/download/".

You could always trim the trailing slash off the URI, if you wanted to.

$requestedURI = preg_replace('/\/$/', '', $requestedURI);

But you're probably going to run into problems down the road, unless you
come up with a good way of mapping friendly URIs to the proper action.

So if I call http://foo.bar/download, it loads
the css file from http://foo.bar/main.css, but if I enter http://foo.bar/download/
(with the slash) it can't find the css file, because it tries to
locate it at http://foo.bar/download/main.css, but of course, there
is
no main.css, /download/ is not even a directory... How do I fix this?

This is an easy one. Change your CSS reference to an absolute path:
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="/main.css" />
(note the leading slash).

Jeremy

[Rik Wasmus]

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:54:58 +0200, k3pp0 <upthekhyber@gm ail.comwrote:

Hello.
>
I'm trying to make use of "pretty URLs" with Apache's rewrite module.
>
Here's what I want:
>

http://foo.bar/index.php?download

>
should be replaced with
>

http://foo.bar/download

>
My .htaccess looks like that:
>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
>
In the index.php I look at $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and act
accordingly:
>
$requestedURI = empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? false :
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
>
switch($request edURI) {
case "/download":
include "download.p hp";
break;
default:
// do something
break;
>
}
>
This works if I go to http://foo.bar/download - it shows index.php
with the included download.php file. But if I go to

http://foo.bar/download/

(with a slash at the end of the URL) it doesn't do anything (default
case of switch($request edURI)), because "/download" != "/download/".
>
To solve this I could just make two cases: case "/download" and case
"/
download/", but I don't really like this solution, if there's a
better
one, please tell me.
>
Let's take it I use the method with the two cases ("/download" and "/
download/"), there's another problem:
In the index.php I've included a stylesheet: "<link rel="stylesheet "
type="text/css" href="main.css" />". As you can see, I use a relative
link to the css file. So if I call http://foo.bar/download, it loads
the css file from http://foo.bar/main.css, but if I enter

http://foo.bar/download/

(with the slash) it can't find the css file, because it tries to
locate it at http://foo.bar/download/main.css, but of course, there
is
no main.css, /download/ is not even a directory... How do I fix this?

Several propabilities. The first: http://example.com/download is NOT the
same as http://example.com/download/ for obvious reasons, so why not just
fail with a Not Found header, as you would with 'example/com/nonsense'?

Obviously that's not what you want, so you might:
1)
a) use $url = trim($url,'/'); or
b) $paths = explode('/',$url); (for more levels in the future?)
2) When playing with rewrites, you want all links from the root, so a
simple '<link .. href="/main.css"solves the second problem.
--
Rik Wasmus

[k3pp0]

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

So I'm trying to only use the RewriteEngine to handle my url.

I came across this problem:

Let's assume I have a url like that:

http://foo.bar/index.php?site=users&mode=manage&action=addnew

For example, this url would open a site that let's you add a new user.
The "pretty" url should look like http://foo.bar/users/manage/addnew
This works fine:
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?site= $1&mode=
$2&action=$3 [L]

But http://foo.bar/index.php?site=users&mode=manage (note that there's
no action parameter) should also be accessible through the pretty url
(/users/manage) and so should http://foo.bar/index.php?site=users
(through /users). The RewriteRule I mentioned above does only work if
you have a site, mode and action parameter, but not with just a site
or just a site + mode parameter.

Is there a way to solve this without making a RewriteRule for each
case (or probably a better solution than mine)?


Thanks in advance!

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

k3pp0 wrote:

So I'm trying to only use the RewriteEngine to handle my url.
>
I came across this problem:
>
Let's assume I have a url like that:

http://foo.bar/index.php?site=users&mode=manage&action=addnew

>
For example, this url would open a site that let's you add a new user.
The "pretty" url should look like http://foo.bar/users/manage/addnew
This works fine:
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?site= $1&mode=
$2&action=$3 [L]
>
But http://foo.bar/index.php?site=users&mode=manage (note that there's
no action parameter) should also be accessible through the pretty url
(/users/manage) and so should http://foo.bar/index.php?site=users
(through /users). The RewriteRule I mentioned above does only work if
you have a site, mode and action parameter, but not with just a site
or just a site + mode parameter.
>
Is there a way to solve this without making a RewriteRule for each
case (or probably a better solution than mine)?
>
>
Thanks in advance!
>

mod_rewrite is an Apache module, not PHP code. You are asking in the
wrong newsgroup.

Try alt.apache.conf iguration, for instance.

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[k3pp0]

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

mod_rewrite is an Apache module, not PHP code.  You are asking in the

wrong newsgroup.
>
Try alt.apache.conf iguration, for instance.
>
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I know, but the apache newsgroup(s) are pretty inactive...

I would be very thankful if someone would answer me anyway.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

k3pp0 wrote:

>mod_rewrite is an Apache module, not PHP code. You are asking in the
>wrong newsgroup.
>>
>Try alt.apache.conf iguration, for instance.
>>
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>JDS Computer Training Corp.
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>
I know, but the apache newsgroup(s) are pretty inactive...
>
I would be very thankful if someone would answer me anyway.
>

Ask in the correct newsgroup and you'll get a good answer.

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