On 1/30/06, Björn Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Joshua Slive writes:
>
> > On 1/30/06, Björn Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Joshua Slive writes:
> >>
> >> > On 1/30/06, Björn Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> I tried your RewriteMatch proposal. It could work with a RewriteCond and a
> RewriteRule but this wouldnt change the URL in the user's address bar and
> that's what I want.
Yes it would. Notice the [R=permanent] flag and look it up in the docs.
The other big advantage to mod_rewrite is the RewriteLog, which lets
you figure out exactly what is happening.
Joshua.
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