On 1/30/06, Björn Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua Slive writes:
>
> > On 1/30/06, Björn Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I want to redirect all requests like
> >> site.com/something,
> >> site.com/something/someotherthing,
> >> site.com/something/xyz/someotherthing
> >>
> >> to site.com/something.html, no matter if or without trailing slash BUT NOT
> >> if the URL is a .gif, .jpg etc.
> >>
> >> So I've got the following RedirectMatch:
> >>
> >> RedirectMatch permanent ^/(.[^/(\.gif)(\.jpg)]*)/?
> >> http://www.site.com/$1.html
> >
> > You need to look again at a regex tutorial. Stuff inside [] is a
> > character class, not an arbitrary regex. That means it will match any
> > one of the set of characters included in the class. You need
> > something more like
> > RedirectMatch permanent ^/(.*(?!\.(gif|jpg)))/?$
> > http://www.example.com/$1.html
> > I haven't tested that, and the negative-lookahead assertion will
> > certainly only work in httpd 2.x.
> >
> > Another way to do this that doesn't require as much regex magic is
> > RewriteEngine On
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(gif|jpg)$
> > RewriteRule ^/(.*)/?$ http://www.example.com/$1[R=permanent]
> >
> > Joshua.
>
> Thanks for the reply. Yes, I was wrong with thinking [^gif] would match only
> the whole string. Got that in the meantime. I just tested your proposal but
> it does not work =/ It redirects to /file.gif.html, /file.gif.html.html etc.
> etc. in an infinite loop. ergo: it matches and redirects.
You tried which proposal? The RewriteRule one can be easily fixed by adding
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$
Joshua.
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