Hi all!
I moved my blog from a CMS to plain files. My old links are of the
form:
http://blog.teksol.info/tags/unit-testing
All files are now stored with a .html extension, such that
%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/tags/unit-testing.html
is an existing file.
I found a thread in 2004 which talked about this problem:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200410.mbox/[EMAIL
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The URL Rewriting Guide's Canonical URLs example is also similar to
this.
I can't seem to make things work. Here's my .htaccess:
# ------------------
RewriteEngine on
# Rewrite index to check for static
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html [QSA,L]
# Rewrite X.html to X only
#RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [R=301,L]
# ------------------
I'm reading my first rule as "Rewrite / to /index.html" and end there.
My second rule is supposed to read "If there exists a file named
X.html, rewrite to that and end", but it doesn't work. When I ask
for /tags/unit-testing, I get a 404.
The third rule (which is commented out) is supposed to rewrite X.html
to X. But when I have that enabled, requests without a .html
extension end up in an infinite redirection loop for the 404 page.
This is hosted on DreamHost and I can't active the rewrite log. If I
had the log, I would probably be able to fix my problem myself!
I'm pretty sure my error is simple. If anybody had a quick pointer,
I'd really appreciate.
Thanks!
--
François Beausoleil
http://blog.teksol.info/
http://piston.rubyforge.org/
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