(Simple) mod_rewrite question

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_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-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($requestedURI) {
case "/download":
include "download.php";
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($requestedURI)), 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: " 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!

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

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

k3pp0 wrote:
>
>
>
> 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($requestedURI)), 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:

(note the leading slash).

Jeremy

Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:54:58 +0200, k3pp0 wrote:=


> 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_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule (.*) index.php
>
> In the index.php I look at $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and act
> accordingly:
>
> $requestedURI =3D empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? false :
> $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
>
> switch($requestedURI) {
> case "/download":
> include "download.php";
> 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($requestedURI)), because "/download" !=3D "/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: "
> type=3D"text/css" href=3D"main.css" />". As you can see, I use a relat=
ive
> 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 jus=
t =

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 $url =3D trim($url,'/'); or
b) $paths =3D explode('/',$url); (for more levels in the future?)
2) When playing with rewrites, you want all links from the root, so a =

simple ' solves the second problem.
-- =

Rik Wasmus

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=addne w

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!

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=addne w
>
> 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.configuration, for instance.

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Re: (Simple) mod_rewrite question

> mod_rewrite is an Apache module, not PHP code. =A0You are asking in the
> wrong newsgroup.
>
> Try alt.apache.configuration, for instance.
>
> --
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> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================

I know, but the apache newsgroup(s) are pretty inactive...

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

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.configuration, for instance.
>>
>> --
>> ==================
>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
>> ==================
>
> 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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