On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:06:27 -0400
"Joshua Slive" <joshua@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Josh Trutwin <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have been asked to create rewrite rules for sites that use an
> > old page naming scheme to a new one. The first attempt was to
> > create a .htaccess file that had a rewrite rule for every page,
> > something like:
> >
> > RewriteRule ^new_page_name.php$ /sitepages/pid123.php [L,QSA,NC]
> >
> > Works ok for small sites, but some of them have thousands of pages
> > which translates to thousands of RewriteRules which of course bogs
> > down the apache server.
> >
> > I was going to look at creating a rewritemap using a .db hash
> > file - my main concern is that we have some existing URL's that
> > map to actual files on the system. My thought was to do
> > something like this:
> >
> > RewriteMap existing prg:/path/to/file/map.pl
> > RewriteMap redirects dbm:/path/to/file/map.db
> >
> > RewriteRule ^/(.*) ${existing:$1} [L,QSA]
> > RewriteRule ^/(.*) ${redirects:$1} [L,QSA]
> >
> > My thought being that the first map is a program that tests if the
> > URL matches an actual file/dir in the doc root, returning NULL if
> > it doesn't. If it matches then processing would stop and the
> > first RewriteRule would work. But if it doesn't match, does the
> > second RewriteRule even get executed? If not, do I then have to
> > resort to a single map that is a perl program that first checks
> > if the URL maps to a page and if not manually reads the map file?
> >
> > Also, curious if anyone has a PhP example of a map program, I'm a
> > little more proficient in that - or even python...
>
> Don't use a map program if you can avoid it. The dbm maps are safer
> and faster.
>
> What you want is easy enough to get, using something like
>
> RewriteCond ${existing:$1|NOT-FOUND} =NOT-FOUND
> RewriteRule ^/(.*) ${redirects:$1} [L,QSA]
>
> You could also, if you want, simply use a RewriteCond to test if the
> file being requested exists on the filesystem. See the -d and -f
> tests.
Thanks - great suggestions - now my next issue. This is all done in
VirtualHosts, I noticed RewriteMap cannot be declared in a .htaccess
so I put it in the VirtualHost like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
VirtualDocumentRoot /httpd/%0/html
RewriteMap rewriter dbm:/httpd/%0/html/rewrite_map.db
</VirtualHost>
The RewriteMap doesn't seem to replace the %0 with the directory name
- so I have a directory /httpd/josh.test.com/html which has
rewrite_map.db.pag and rewrite_map.db.dir. I created a .htaccess in
josh.test.com/html:
RewriteRule ^(.*) ${rewriter:$1} [R]
When attempting to access the site though I get a "No such file or
directory" error on /httpd/%0/html/rewrite_map.db.pag
Can I declare the RewriteMap once as above to map to each
VirtualHost's directory?
Thanks! Feels like this is getting a lot closer.
Josh
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