Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Shorter links solutions (Further Testing)

[Ken N. <ke...@co...>]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 06:11 -0400, Ken Nordquist wrote:
> URL = article3-2.html 
> 
> RewriteRule ^article([1-9][0-9]*)\-([1-9][0-9]*).html$
> index.php?module=article&view=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}&page_num=$2&
> %{QUERY_STRING}
> 
> Which rewrites to:
> 
> module=article&view=3&page_num=2
> 
> The caveat at this point is that it needs BOTH the article number and
> the page number.  It is a relatively simple implementation of Eloi's
> short URL hack (which works wonderfully and I wholeheartedly endorse!)

After further testing, there is a way to mod_rewrite the URL to default
to the first page.

**********
RewriteRule ^article([1-9][0-9]*).html$ index.php?module=article&view=
$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^article([1-9][0-9]*)\-([1-9][0-9]*).html$ index.php?module=article&view=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}&page_num=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
**********

The [L] tells mod_rewrite to stop looking for rewrite rules and to apply 
the current rule.

It does work without the [L], but it does eliminate some httpd overhead 
should mod_rewrite (.htaccess) become a large file.


-- 
Ken Nordquist
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