2008/12/6 Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
> <clodoaldo.pinto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'm using this config in Apache 2.2.3/Centos 5:
>>
>> RewriteMap redirect txt:/var/www/html/example/redirect.txt
>>
>> RewriteRule ^/(a|b|c|d|e)$ http://example.com/${redirect:$1} [NC,R=permanent,L]
>>
>> redirect.txt:
>> a x
>> b y
>> c z
>> d k
>> e j
>>
>> Since the redirected pages are many i would like to not have to put
>> them all in RewriteRule ^(a|b|c|d|e)$ using in instead the
>> redirect.txt map to populate that rewrite rule. Is it possible? If not
>> what else can be done?
>
> Basically you want the rule not to change the URL if there is no macht
> in redirect.txt, right?
Exactly
> I had a similar need a while ago. I can't look at the exact solution I
> implemented then (as I'm not in the office at the moment) but it was
> something like this:
>
> RewriteCond ${redirect:$1} (^.+$)
> RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/%1
> [NC,R=permanent,L]
Almost that. It worked like this:
RewriteMap redirect txt:/var/www/html/example/redirect.txt
RewriteCond ${redirect:$1} (^.+$)
RewriteRule /(.+)$ http://example.com/%1 [NC,R=permanent,L]
>
> This gets processed in the following order:
> - (.*) is matched against the URL. URL is captured in $1
> - $1 gets looked up in the redirect map. The result gets matched
> against an non empty line (that's what ^.+$ is) and if there is a
> match, it getst captured in %1, and the RewriteRule can proceed.
> - The rule gets rewriten to http://example.com/%1 (%1 is what we
> captured in the RewriteCond).
>
> The advantage of this construct is that if URL isn't found in your
> rewritemap than the whole RewriteRule fails, and rule processing
> continues, which makes it possible to have other rules for the cases
> you can't solve with your rewritemap.
> A last note: If your redirect map gets large use dbm maps, not text
> maps. They are a lot faster.
This explanation was what i needed. Without it i would spend the
whole weekend trying.
Thanks, Clodoaldo
>
> Krist
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