Russ, Not sure that I agree. There is a free ISAPI_rewrite Lite and the full version is $69. I don't consider this overtly expensive as some host providers may already have it installed. Plus, if I had to buy it personally, I would bill it to the current client as it is probably for their web site anyways.
Free is much cheaper if my client has an apache solution. Most of my clients do not use apache as much as the quality of apache is well documented. Ideally you are right. In practice, it does not always turn out that way. Cheers, Teddy On 9/27/06, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but IIS's rewrite are third party modules, and are either expensive > or > not very powerfull or both, while Apache is and always will be free. > > Russ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:35 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: RewriteRule and REQUEST_URI > > > > mod_rewrite is an Apache mod, correct? It would good to point out that > > IIS > > also has an ISAPI that does rewriting as well. > > > > Teddy > > > > On 9/27/06, Rob Wilkerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > For anyone who's interested, I think I just found a solution. Instead > > > of relying on ColdFusion to put what I needed in the environment, I > > > realized that mod_rewrite had provided the ability for me to handle it > > > myself: > > > > > > RewriteRule ^/(.*) /my/landingpage.cfm > > > [E=MY_REQUEST_URI:%{REQUEST_URI},QSA,PT] > > > > > > Now I can access #CGI.MY_REQUEST_URI# to retrieve the original URI > > > without worrying about what ColdFusion provides. More testing will be > > > done, but it looks pretty solid as far as I can tell. > > > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Rob Wilkerson > > > > > > > > > On 9/27/06, Rob Wilkerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Desperation is taking hold so I'm putting this out there > again. I've > > > > done more research, but haven't found anything that really provides > a > > > > solid answer - even if that answer is a definitive "it can't be > done." > > > > > > > > I can't believe no one's ever run into this problem before. > > > > > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Rob Wilkerson > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9/26/06, Rob Wilkerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Yeah, I can do thqt, but if the original URI contains, for > example, > > > > > an ampersand (e.g. /path/to/My Resume & Cover Letter.doc) then > > > > > nothing works. I was hoping to pass it behind the curtain (which > > you > > > > > can do with PHP) and read it from there. > > > > > > > > > > On Sep 26, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Russ wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hmm... not sure if you'll be able to get the original url into > > > > > > request_uri, > > > > > > but you should be able to append it as a parameter > > > > > > > > > > > > RewriteRule ^/(.*) /my/landingpage.cfm?url=$1 [PT] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Something like that should work. > > > > > > > > > > > > Russ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > > > > >> From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:45 PM > > > > > >> To: CF-Talk > > > > > >> Subject: RewriteRule and REQUEST_URI > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Has anyone had any luck using mod_rewrite and then accessing > the > > > > > >> originally requested URI via CGI.REQUEST_URI. I can see that > the > > > > > >> value is not documented (and won't dump), but it does evaluate. > > > > > >> Unfortunately for me it appears to evaluate to the redirected > URI > > > > > >> rather than the original. > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Anyone had this problem and or gotten around it? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> My RewriteRule looks like this: > > > > > >> > > > > > >> RewriteRule ^/(.*) /my/landingpage.cfm [PT] > > > > > >> > > > > > >> When I display #GCI.REQUEST_URI#, though, I get "/my/ > > > > > >> landingpage.cfm". > > > > > >> > > > > > >> -- > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Rob Wilkerson > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254424 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
