2008/12/6 Clodoaldo Pinto Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/12/6 Krist van Besien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm using this config in Apache 2.2.3/Centos 5:
>>>
>>> RewriteMap redirect txt:/var/www/html/example/redirect.txt
>>>
>>> RewriteRule ^/(a|b|c|d|e)$ http://example.com/${redirect:$1}
>>> NC,R=permanent,L]
>>>
>>> redirect.txt:
>>> a x
>>> b y
>>> c z
>>> d k
>>> e j
>>>
>>> Since the redirected pages are many i would like to not have to put
>>> them all in RewriteRule ^(a|b|c|d|e)$ using in instead the
>>> redirect.txt map to populate that rewrite rule. Is it possible? If not
>>> what else can be done?
>>
>> Basically you want the rule not to change the URL if there is no macht
>> in redirect.txt, right?
>
> Exactly
>
>> I had a similar need a while ago. I can't look at the exact solution I
>> implemented then (as I'm not in the office at the moment) but it was
>> something like this:
>>
>> RewriteCond ${redirect:$1} (^.+$)
>> RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/%1
>> [NC,R=permanent,L]
>
> Almost that. It worked like this:
>
> RewriteMap redirect txt:/var/www/html/example/redirect.txt
> RewriteCond ${redirect:$1} (^.+$)
> RewriteRule /(.+)$ http://example.com/%1 [NC,R=permanent,L]
A bit more elaborate. Match any case:
RewriteMap redirect dbm=db:/var/www/html/example/redirect.db
RewriteMap tolower int:tolower
RewriteCond ${tolower:$1} (^.+$)
RewriteCond ${redirect:%1} (^.+$)
RewriteRule /(.+)$ http://example.com/%1 [NC,R=permanent,L]
>
>>
>> This gets processed in the following order:
>> - (.*) is matched against the URL. URL is captured in $1
>> - $1 gets looked up in the redirect map. The result gets matched
>> against an non empty line (that's what ^.+$ is) and if there is a
>> match, it getst captured in %1, and the RewriteRule can proceed.
>> - The rule gets rewriten to http://example.com/%1 (%1 is what we
>> captured in the RewriteCond).
>>
>> The advantage of this construct is that if URL isn't found in your
>> rewritemap than the whole RewriteRule fails, and rule processing
>> continues, which makes it possible to have other rules for the cases
>> you can't solve with your rewritemap.
>> A last note: If your redirect map gets large use dbm maps, not text
>> maps. They are a lot faster.
>
> This explanation was what i needed. Without it i would spend the
> whole weekend trying.
>
> Thanks, Clodoaldo
>
>>
>> Krist
>>
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