Re: [VuFind-General] .htaccess

[Andrew N. <and...@vi...>]

> Quick question on the .htaccess file...
>
> Our 001 fields, for the most part, are OCLC, but we have a lot of other
> starting fields (ebr, itof, net, etc) depending on which vendor is
> providing the records. Currently the mod_rewrite rules are constrained
> to oc[m|n] in the start of the id field. I suspect there's a reason for
> this, but before I made a change to expand the characters, I wanted to
> know the implications. For instance, is this
>
> RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([a-zA-Z]+[0-9\s]+)$
>
> preferable to
>
> RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([.*]+)$

Yes, you will need to use the 1st one because the 2nd one will definitely b=
reak the application :)
Though you might want to use a * instead of a + after the [a-zA-Z] if any o=
f your 001 fields do not contain a prefix.

Andrew