mod_rewrite: help with regular expressions

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mod_rewrite: help with regular expressions

Nov 9th, 2004

Good Afternoon:

I am looking to use Apache's mod_rewrite module to rearrange some URLs, but my knoweldge of regular expressions is SORELY lacking.

I would like to take a url such as:

http://www.somesite.com/folder/somepage.html

and translate it to:

http://www.somesite.com/index.php?de...=somepage.html

and, just as likely:

http://www.somesite.com/folder/anoth.../somepage.html

to:

http://www.somesite.com/index.php?de.../somepage.html

Would someone please assist me with this? I would greatly appreciate it!

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Re: mod_rewrite: help with regular expressions

Nov 10th, 2004

First, configure your servers and virtual servers with mod_rewrite by adding this to apache (I'm assuming you're using apache):

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog /path/to/logs/server.rewrite.txt
RewriteLogLevel 1

Next, find out which scheme you would like to use for rewrite depending on your comfort zone with apache directives...

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

That should get you where you need to go.

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