mod_rewrite

[John Scott]

Anybody familiar with mod_rewrite? I'm thinking of using it to rewrite the URL's for this forum.

[hatchet]

Here's the URL Rewriting Guide..
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html
I know enough about it to know where to look...hah.

[John Scott]

Huh. I was wanting more specific instructions...

[hatchet]

hah.. So you want something where the URL gets rewritten to be http://www.internet-marketing-research.net/forums/3134
or .../forum3/topic3134 or ../forum/3-3134.php
I'll see what I can work up.

[hatchet]

Try this..
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic...=851615#851615

[digitalpoint]

If you need any help, let me know (although the above link is everything you need)... I've setup mod_rewrite to make Google friendly URLs on a test forum using phpbb before.

- Shawn

[John Scott]

I'd very much appreciate your help, Shawn. I'm pretty ignorant in these matters.

[digitalpoint]

Shoot me an email or AIM (screen name is the same as my user name here), and I'll help you out (or coordinate with you to do it for you in a test environment if you want).

It's pretty easy though, so shouldn't take much time...

- Shawn

[John Scott]

If we do that, what happens when somebody tries to access a page with the old format?

Like, it's going to change, and then what happens if somebody clicks on a link like this:

http://www.internet-marketing-resear...forum.php?f=13

When the new format would be like this:

http://www.internet-marketing-resear...forum/t13.html

404?

[digitalpoint]

No... it will still work... mod_rewrite basically just rewrites the URL internally... all the old URLs still works so it's nice for backward compatibility.

Also, do you run your own server? Or can you at least access your httpd.conf file for apache on the server? The .htaccess file is one way of putting mod_rewrite directives in, but it's a big of an overhead, as the server needs to read the file for each and every HTTP request. If you can put them in your httpd.conf file, they stay memory resident when you start apache. Not a deal breaker, but it's the "best" way to do it for moderate to high load web servers.

- Shawn

[John Scott]

They are all my servers.

[digitalpoint]

Well that makes your life easier, now doesn't it?

- Shawn

[John Scott]

Sure does.

[sabo]

Hi all,

Does anyone knows where can I find the same information, but applied to optimization of the long .jsp strings?

I would like to convert /long.jsp?ID=strings into /short.htm strings.

I am usign TomCat and I do manage my own server.

Please help me with a hint