Help with .htaccess url rewrite

December 23rd, 2006, 2:38 pm

Hello,

I'm having a problem with one of my htaccess rewrites with the following rule:

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ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1 [L]

regular links are fine but any link with a ? in makes the rewrite strip the rest of the link off:

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e.g.

/link/http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=1823428&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Outputs:

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail

1. e.g.
3. /link/http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=1823428&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
5. Outputs:
7. http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail

Any suggestions? I dont want the symbol ? in links stripped out with the remaining url.

December 24th, 2006, 12:08 am

Try this out and let me know...

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ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1 [L,QSA]

December 24th, 2006, 2:30 am

Hi,

The rest of your URL is made up of parameters therefore, it's probably best capturing them as $1, $2, $3 etc ... and redefining them within your rewrite.

Hope that makes sense.

Cheers, Prime ...

December 24th, 2006, 11:21 am

apache.org wrote:

# 'qsappend|QSA' (query string append)
This flag forces the rewrite engine to append a query string part of the substitution string to the existing string, instead of replacing it. Use this when you want to add more data to the query string via a rewrite rule.

By putting that flag in there it will do the capturing for them. Since modrewrite ignores the query strings (anything after the ?) you have to tell it to append them back in. My code *might* also need an & after the $1:

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ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1& [L,QSA]

That way when it appends the & is already in place, I can't remember if the server does it automatically or not. You may want to test with replacing L with R to see exactly what is getting sent to the server.

December 24th, 2006, 2:04 pm

well currently I'm using

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RewriteEngine On
ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1& [L,QSA]

1. RewriteEngine On
2. ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1& [L,QSA]

and it still wont work, no idea why so I'm just using goto.php?l=LINK with my bbcode function.

December 24th, 2006, 2:16 pm

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RewriteEngine On
ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1& [R,QSA]

1. RewriteEngine On
2. ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1& [R,QSA]

If you use that, what is the url in the address bar? (after you click the link or what not)

December 24th, 2006, 2:27 pm

link is

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/link/http://www.apniisp.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32616

OUTPUT:

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http://www.wjdev.net/home/Shadows/public_html/wjdev/goto.php?l=http://www.apniisp.com/forum/index.php&&showtopic=32616

which quickly redirects back to my homepage

December 24th, 2006, 2:49 pm

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RewriteEngine On
ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1 [L,QSA]

1. RewriteEngine On
2. ReWriteRule ^link/(.*)$ goto.php?l=$1 [L,QSA]

What about that?

And does just http://www.wjdev.net/home/Shadows/publi ... ?l=http:// http://www.apniisp.com/forum/index.php&showtopic=32616
work for you? (I get a 404 error for that, and even just http://www.wjdev.net/home/Shadows/public_html/wjdev/)

December 24th, 2006, 2:53 pm

well that gets through to the goto.php script but splits again with the ? symbol. wjdev is my testing domain:

live:

http://www.socketz.com/link/http://www. ... opic=32616

December 24th, 2006, 2:54 pm

do you see the output I'm getting, thanks for your patience b_heyer

goto.php script

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   $url = strip_tags($_REQUEST['l']);
 
   echo($url);
 
   exit();
 
 

1.  
2.    $url = strip_tags($_REQUEST['l']);
3.  
4.    echo($url);
5.  
6.    exit();
7.  
8.  

December 24th, 2006, 3:00 pm

check out your other post, I posted a possible solution there.