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[phpodpworld-users] SEF in phpODPWorld

[Darryl K. <dk...@se...>]

I'm trying to set up a .htaccess file to do search engine friendly urls
on a phpODPWorld site that I put together.

Does anyone have any examples of how to do this?  I've found that it's a
bit difficult.

Darryl Koster
dk...@se...

[phpodpworld-users] SEF in phpODPWorld

[Darryl K. <dk...@se...>]

I have $config["use_rewrite"] = true; set in the config.inc.php, and am
using example1.htaccess as my .htaccess file.

When I click on say, "Personal Pages" on my site I get a 404 "The
requested URL /Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages was not found on this
server."

I enabled the rewrite log, and this is what I got below for that:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] add path info postfix:
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers ->
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] strip per-dir prefix:
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages ->
Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] applying pattern '^/index.php$' to uri
'Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages'
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] add path info postfix:
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers ->
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] strip per-dir prefix:
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages ->
Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] applying pattern '^/.*' to uri
'Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages'
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] add path info postfix:
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers ->
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] strip per-dir prefix:
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages ->
Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] applying pattern '^/(.*)' to uri
'Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages'
192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
[www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (1) [perdir
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] pass through
/www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Any idea on what I'm doing wrong here?

Darryl Koster

Re: [phpodpworld-users] SEF in phpODPWorld

[Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...>]

* Darryl Koster <dk...@se...> [2007-03-27]:
> I have $config["use_rewrite"] = true; set in the config.inc.php, and am
> using example1.htaccess as my .htaccess file.
> 
> When I click on say, "Personal Pages" on my site I get a 404 "The
> requested URL /Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages was not found on this
> server."

Thx for the added info. I must admit that I didn't tell the complete
truth - I use the content of example1.htaccess directly inside
the Apache config file (httpd.conf/apache.conf or whatever it's called
on your machine). This might make a difference because (quote from
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule):

  When using the rewrite engine in .htaccess files the per-directory
  prefix (which always is the same for a specific directory) is
  automatically removed for the pattern matching and automatically added
  after the substitution has been done. This feature is essential for
  many sorts of rewriting; without this, you would always have to match
  the parent directory, which is not always possible. 

This seems to indicate that you should replace all (three) occurences of
"^/" with just "^" in the .htaccess file. Let me know if it helps (and
I'll update the docs/example files). The reason I think this should
work is:
 
> I enabled the rewrite log, and this is what I got below for that:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
> [www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
> /www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] add path info postfix:
> /www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers ->
> /www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
> 192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
> [www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
> /www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] strip per-dir prefix:
> /www/robotmoz.com/public_html/Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages ->
> Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages
> 192.168.168.163 - - [26/Mar/2007:16:42:54 --0700]
> [www.robotmoz.com/sid#757578][rid#9605b8/initial] (3) [perdir
> /www/robotmoz.com/public_html/] applying pattern '^/index.php$' to uri
> 'Computers/Robotics/Personal_Pages'

We are trying to match something that starts with a slash with
something that doesn't...

Regards,
Hans

PS! www.robotmoz.com looked really nice. At first glance there is only
one minor glitch (on my screen) - the languages/links in the 
"This category in other languages" box is almost impossible to see.

Re: [phpodpworld-users] SEF in phpODPWorld

[Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...>]

* Darryl Koster <dk...@se...> [2007-03-26]:
> I'm trying to set up a .htaccess file to do search engine friendly urls
> on a phpODPWorld site that I put together.
> 
> Does anyone have any examples of how to do this?  I've found that it's a
> bit difficult.

The files you downloaded when you installed phpODPWorld contains
example1.htaccess and example2.htaccess. I do agree that these files
aren't trivial, but unless you tell us what you are trying to achieve
*and* what you have tried that didn't work, it's very hard to help
you.

On http://odp.no/ I'm using example1.htaccess (renamed to
.htaccess of course).

Regards,
Hans