Perfect! Thanks very much works a charm.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Severin Gehwolf <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I am looking for some advice on how to do exact matching for
> > mod_rewrite, I have the 2 rules in my config:
> >
> > Rule1
> > ====
> > RewriteRule ^/nokian95 /phones.php?id=555 [PT,QSA,NS,NE]
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)phones\.php(.*)$
> > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id\=555$
> > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /nokian95? [R=301,L]
> >
> >
> > and
> >
> > Rule2
> > ====
> > RewriteRule ^/nokian95plum /phones.php?id=588 [PT,QSA,NS,NE]
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)phones\.php(.*)$
> > RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id\=588$
> > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /nokian95plum? [R=301,L]
> >
> > Now as the Rule1 is first in the config file then any URL string that
> > contains /nokian95 will result in /phones.php?id=555 being called,
> > Rule2 will never be matched because Rule1 will match first.
> >
> > I want to be able to specify that a match is only valid when the text
> > to be matched is *exactly* the text in the rewriterule and not just a
> > fragmement match.
>
> Use '$' for matching the ending of a line as follows:
>
> Rule1:
> RewriteRule ^/nokian95$ /phones.php?id=555 [PT,QSA,NS,NE]
>
> Rule2:
> RewriteRule ^/nokian95plum$ /phones.php?id=588 [PT,QSA,NS,NE]
>
> Similar to '^' - which matches the beginning of the line - '$' matches
> any String which ends with the specified characters.
>
> ---
> Severin
>
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