In summary, it sounds like you're saying for a project as big as the animal kingdom, I should forget about mod_rewrite and let my CMS do the job. I've actually been thinking of building my own CMS, but this might be a good reason to go with Drupal or Mambo after all. Thankss. --- John Hicks <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Blomstrom wrote: > > I want to create a content management system that > > produces user/search engine-friendly URL's like > these: > > > > www.geozoo.org/stacks/Carnivora/ > > www.geozoo.org/kids/Carnivora/ > > www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canidae/ > > www.geozoo.org/kids/Canidae/ > > www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canis_lupus/ > > www.geozoo.org/kids/Canis_lupus/ > > > > As you can see, there will be two versions of each > > article, one for adults, the other for kids. > > > > I think this is done with Apache's mod_rewrite > > function, right? > > mod_rewrite can do a good job of translating urls > like the above into > something like this: > > www.geozoo.com/?Audience=kids&Subject=Carnivora > etc. > > which most any CMS can go to town with. > > . . . > > > One other question: I read somewhere that you can > > actually produce several URL's for one article. > For > > example, an article about the wolf might be > accessed > > at any of the following: > > > > www.geozoo.org/stacks/wolf/ > > www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canis_lupus/ > > www.geozoo.org/stacks/top_predator/ > > > > I think I read about this on Plone's website, but > > Plone is way over my head. Is this something you > can > > do with mod_rewrite or some other technology that > > isn't restricted to a particular CMS? Can it be > done > > with a database? (I'll have the wolf listed under > > wolf, Canis_lupus, top predator, etc.) > > mod_rewrite uses regular expressions. You'd only > need a few to do the > basic job. But if you want to do rewrites based on > particular subjects, > the list of rewrite rules would get way longer and > maintenance (of > regular expressions) would be a bear. > > Assuming you have a pretty long assortment of > critters, you'd do better > to do this with your CMS using a database. This > probably involves using > an extra table: a Subject table that points to an > Article table, for > example, so you can have multiple subjects pointing > to the same article. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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