On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, John Klehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Chris Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can provide help with integrating the code with the appdb if you > > have any questions. The real question I've got, since I haven't done > > it before, is how to get the path the user specified, eg. > > appdb.winehq.org/vendor/adobe (or whatever), into a php script so we > > can redirect to the list of applications for the vendor 'adobe'. > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > Well that did take a bit for me to work out as well here is what is > working for me on my apache 2.2.8 > > You have to have allowoveride Options in the parent conf files and then > > filename: htdocs/appdb/.htaccess > RewriteEngine On > Options FollowSymLinks # need this as well as RewriteEngine On to > acutally get it going > RewriteBase /appdb/ > RewriteRule ^app/(.*)$ matchAppByName.php?AppName=$1 > > > > This will let you have: $1 is matched by the part of the url that is > not matched by http://hostname.com/appb/app/ > > e.g. appdb/app/adobe-photoshop-cs2 > Results in matchAppByName.php?AppName=adobe-photoshop-cs2 > > I'm not adverse to help with appdb whatever gets it solved more quickly =) > > Be careful when choosing your rewritebase as its more important than > you'd think =P > > Hope this helps, > John >
Right, this makes more sense. Checking REQUEST_URI in index.php won't work because the path given won't match an existing page so you'll get the 404 page instead. Chris
