mod_rewrite code work

[rpkamp]

@Dada_Dan

However, with all the above in mind, perhaps this would be a plan:

RewriteEngine On

# First rule to catch temporary hosting URL, 301 redirect, and stop processing.
RewriteRule /?~myhostingusername/?(.*) http://www.actualdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# Next, knowing the next URL won't be one like the above if we are still prcoessing, let the CMS do it's thing
RewriteRule ^content(.*) index.php
RewriteRule ^component/(.*) index.php

# Finally do the index.html redirect to /

Sounds good to me, and achieves the same goal I suggested: first do a 301 to the correct URL, and then process further

[Dada_Dan]

@rpkamp

Sounds good to me, and achieves the same goal I suggested: first do a 301 to the correct URL, and then process further

Roger. It’s still not working, and at the moment I am working though the tutorial (somewhat blindly) to try and see where it might be going wrong.

I know that

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} hostingcompany\\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.actualdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

at least triggers a redirect on the ReWriteCond(itional) on

http://server.hostingcompany.com/~myhostingusername/

so I know I have access to be able the Apache variable.

But by all accounts the following should work, though having read the tutorial I want to ask why it doesn’t require a ^ at the beginning of the rule and why there is not a $ after (.*).

RewriteRule ~myhostingusername/?(.*) http://www.actualdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[rpkamp]

@Dada_Dan

But by all accounts the following should work, though having read the tutorial I want to ask why it doesn’t require a ^ at the beginning of the rule and why there is not a $ after (.*).

RewriteRule ~myhostingusername/?(.*) http://www.actualdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

You could add ^ and $ if you like, doesn’t matter (it will probably be slightly faster if you do though).

[dklynn]

@Dada_Dan

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} hostingcompany\\.com [NC]
RewriteRule [COLOR="Red"]~myhostingusername/?[/COLOR](.*) http://www.actualdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Location, Location, Location! Of course! WHERE is this code located? Horrors! It’s NOT in hostingcompany’s DocumentRoot which is what the RewriteRule assumes (er, requires)! REMOVE the red text from the RewriteRule and see if that doesn’t do the trick for you (if it doesn’t, add a / where the red text was located)!

@rpkamp

You could add ^ and $ if you like, doesn’t matter (it will probably be slightly faster if you do though).

Hmmm, as noted above, that’s in the subdirectory of hostingcompany so the ^ really doesn’t matter AND the (.*) is always “greedy” so that doesn’t matter, either.

DD, did you get to the point where you can separate the parts of the content/123/456/? Is content really fixed as content or can it be content, reviews, purchase, etc., or is it ANY (lowercase) string? The numeric values: ONE single digit? More than one? One to three? SPECIFICITY, if you please!

It looks like content/123/456/ can be matched with regex like ^(content|reviews|purchase)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]{1,3})/ where $1 (the first parenthetical) is any one of the three options listed, $2 is one or more digits and $3 is one, two or three digits. Get it now? Then the redirection can be to yourscript.php?type=$1&cat=$2&subcat=$3 [L] - NEVER forget the Last flag!

Regards,

DK

[Dada_Dan]

@dklynn

Location, Location, Location! Of course! WHERE is this code located? Horrors! It’s NOT in hostingcompany’s DocumentRoot which is what the RewriteRule assumes (er, requires)! REMOVE the red text from the RewriteRule and see if that doesn’t do the trick for you (if it doesn’t, add a / where the red text was located)!

Oh joy of joys - that works precisely. Both the / and /{ANYTHING} versions redirect to the real / and /{ANYTHING} respectively per the specificity :).

Kudos to you both for your patience and forcing to actually understand a bit mroe about what I am doing here.

@dklynn

DD, did you get to the point where you can separate the parts of the content/123/456/? Is content really fixed as content or can it be content, reviews, purchase, etc., or is it ANY (lowercase) string? The numeric values: ONE single digit? More than one? One to three? SPECIFICITY, if you please!

It looks like content/123/456/ can be matched with regex like ^(content|reviews|purchase)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]{1,3})/ where $1 (the first parenthetical) is any one of the three options listed, $2 is one or more digits and $3 is one, two or three digits. Get it now? Then the redirection can be to yourscript.php?type=$1&cat=$2&subcat=$3 [L] - NEVER forget the Last flag!

So a bit confused here because I as never trying to separate the parts was I - that rewrite was pre-existing?

[rpkamp]

@Dada_Dan

So a bit confused here because I as never trying to separate the parts was I - that rewrite was pre-existing?

The index.php of your CMS is probably able to grab the original URL from Apache.
I’m using the Yii PHP framework and this my only RewriteRule *:

RewriteRule . /index.php

As you can see everything is directed to index.php, which resolves the URL the user actually requested and takes action accordingly.

• Not taking into account RewriteRules to force “www” etc

[Dada_Dan]

@rpkamp

The index.php of your CMS is probably able to grab the original URL from Apache.
I’m using the Yii PHP framework and this my only RewriteRule *:

RewriteRule . /index.php

As you can see everything is directed to index.php, which resolves the URL the user actually requested and takes action accordingly.

• Not taking into account RewriteRules to force “www” etc

Okay that makes sense as those rules do look a little rudimentary at first glance