9 Responses for "Why does mod_rewrite hate me so?"

1. mxfreak November 22nd, 2002 at 7:42 pm 1

   Which version of Apache?

2. mxfreak November 22nd, 2002 at 7:53 pm 2

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !*\/showfile\.php*
   RewriteRule (.*) /showfile\.php?name=$1 [R=permanent,NE]

   That would be a potential start… but you’ll have to test your regex for the RewriteCondition (it must only rewrite the URL if showfile.php is NOT present in the URI) as well as the correct URL in the rule below ;)

3. tsutton November 23rd, 2002 at 1:58 am 3

   It’s already explained in apache httpd.conf file :)

   Or visit the apache website… thye have an example code.

4. idigital November 23rd, 2002 at 8:10 am 4

   I did that, but it didn’t help me.

5. mxfreak November 23rd, 2002 at 9:40 am 5

   Have you tried the above?

   You need to specify the following in the .htaccess or the <VirtualHost> directive:

   RewriteEngine On
   :
   :

   The colons above refer to the above items I included. I used that to tell people that a piece of software had moved. It worked pretty well.

6. idigital November 23rd, 2002 at 1:21 pm 6

   Well I’ve got other files that I don’t want to be rewritten, so what I was wanting to do was to only move the following:

   http://wwf.slippers.com/files/* -> http://wwf.slippers.com/showfile.php?name=/files/*
   http://wwf.slippers.com/css/* -> http://wwf.slippers.com/showfile.php?name=/css/*
   http://wwf.slippers.com/misc/* -> http://wwf.slippers.com/showfile.php?name=/misc/*

   How would I go about doing that?

7. idigital November 23rd, 2002 at 1:22 pm 7

   It’s just the regexps that I’m having problems with. I’ve got it running, but I don’t know how to get it to run how I want it to… see my comment above…

8. idigital November 23rd, 2002 at 2:07 pm 8

   Never mind, worked it out by adapting by what you suggested above. Thanks :D

9. mxfreak November 23rd, 2002 at 4:02 pm 9

   Excellent :)

   Enjoy!