-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael D. Berger wrote: > What the rules are "supposed to solve" is not relevant to this > discussion. This is what they are >supposed to do<.
Well, yes, that is what I was asking. > Do not change anything with "picts" in it. You might try prefacing the entire thing with RewriteRule picts - [L] > For the rule above: > Change to /index.cgi for: > / > anything that both begins and ends in "/", i.e. "/.*/" That might be: RewriteRule ^/$ /index.cgi [PT,QSA] RewriteRule ^/.+/$ /index.cgi [PT,QSA] > The other rule, not shown here, was incorrect. The corrected version is: > RewriteRule ^/.*\.html(\?.*$)? /index.cgi$1 [L] > > This will call /index.cgi for any URL that begins in "/", ends in ".html", > and optionally has argumenmts following a ?. If there are arguments, > they will be passed to index.cgi. There's one problem with this approach. The arguments following a ? are not part of what you are allowed to consider in a RewriteRule. That is, RewriteRule considers the REQUEST_URI, not including the http:// or the hostname or the QUERY_STRING (the QUERY_STRING is the bit starting with the ?). If you want to retain the QUERY_STRING, you need to use the QSA flag (QUERY STRING APPEND) to do that. Granted, there's a chance that it appeared to be working anyway, because of the trailing ? making the whole thing optional. > Perhaps there is difficulty because it is not obvious why I would want > to do this. Suffice it to say that index.cgi is rather complex. Well, understanding why you want to do it *might* suggest alternate approaches, but, then again, it might not. Hard to know a priori. As Joshua said, one of your best tools at this point is the RewriteLog, since it tells you exactly what mod_rewrite thinks is going on. That is sometimes enough to figure out why a particular rule isn't doing what you expect it to do. I also find Regex Coach or ReBug to be a great tool to find out no only what matched, but why it matched and which parts were assigned to $1 and so on. - -- Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDaKObXP03+sx4yJMRAoWPAJ4s2TjK+XEuQzn2ZYoM68bD7hqE3gCg3FxN 7cm8y8G3zgkfQSp+hCqVMzs= =V5+o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
