I'll give you the mod_rewrite solution but a mod_perl handler version is
similarly simple.
RewriteRule /user/(.+)(/profile)? /user/profile?id=$1 [NS]
This creates an internal subrequest (ie. users don't see it) for the new
URI, and if I remember rightly mod_rewrite will sort out your query
string for you. If you have collisions with the 'id' parameter I'd
suggest changing your program logic - HTTP doesn't strongly define
parameter ordering or precedence so you might get unexpected results!
mod_rewrite only does an external redirect (so users see it) if the
destination URI is absolute (http://...) or if you add the 'R' flag
(like this: "..... ?id=$1 [R,NS]" )
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John
Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
Currently a page is accessed like this:
/user/profile?id=X
I'm trying to get url schemes like this to map to that page
/users/X
/users/X/profile
I tried doing it in mod_rewrite. there i ran into 2 problems:
a_ the new mapping is shown to the user
b_ i can either replace the query string entirely, or append the
new 'id' to it. if there's an existing id param in the string
though, i run into a collison
