On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:05 AM, LB22 wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks Jonathan, I'll take another look at the server log and see if I > find any clues.
The main trick is to get *some* kind of pattern match. If your match pattern never matches, the log won't be helpful, since the rewrite line will be a nop. > > On Jul 30, 3:15 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >> On Jul 30, 2009, at 5:33 AM, LB22 wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Below is what I'm trying to achieve, followed by the rules I put in >>> my .htaccess file. Could someone please tell me where I'm going >>> wrong, >>> and in which directory I need to put the .htaccess file? Mod_rewrite >>> is definitely enabled, but is there anything else I need to check in >>> my httpd.conf file? Thanks for the help :o) >> >>> I want to rewrite any requests like this: >> >>> http://thisis.mydomain.com/somevalue >> >>> To this: >> >>> http://thisis.mydomain.com/application/controller/function?somevariab >>> ... >> >>> --- >> >>> This is what I put in my .htaccess file: >> >>> Options +FollowSymLinks >> >>> RewriteEngine On >> >>> RewriteRule ^https?://thisis.mydomain.com/(([a-zA-Z0-9])+)?$ >>> ^http://thisis.mydomain.com/application/controller/function? >>> somevariable=$1 >> >> I'm no expert on this, but my impression is that .htaccess should be >> somewhere between the directory that has your domain root and the >> base >> directory of web2py (from your URLs, this looks like the same >> directory). >> >> FWIW, when I set up a rewrite for mod_proxy and the welcome app, I >> ended up with something like this: >> >> RewriteRule ^(welcome(/.*)?)$http://127.0.0.1:8666/$1[P] >> >> You don't want the [P], of course, and the other details will vary, >> but note that my pattern does not include http://. >> >> Also, you don't want ^ in your replacement pattern. >> >> Looking at your server log can help with this, once you're rewriting >> *something*. I started by rewriting ^.*$ to foo, and seeing what the >> log had to say; that's how I noticed that I didn't want the http://. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
