[thelist] Mimicing a "normal" directory structure with mod_rewrite
Joshua Olson
joshua at waetech.com
Sat Jul 9 09:26:05 CDT 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: April
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 5:51 AM
>
> I want to use mod_rewrite in a web directory so I can mimic a natural
> directory structure like category/subcategory/subcategory/ while
> overlaying one file like categories.php. I'm fine just doing
> category/,
> but I can't figure out how to deal with the /'s between subcategories
> and the fact that they might or might not be there. IE I can do:
> RewriteRule ^dir/([A-Za-z]+)$ category_view.php?cat=$1
> but I can't figure out how to adjust it to deal with a url like:
> http://domain.com/dir/Games/Flash/Free
April,
While this doesn't directly relate to mod_rewrite, I believe the syntax is
very similar. So, perhaps this will help:
http://www.waetech.com/tidbits/isapi_rewrite/
Swap out the ([\d]+) for ([A-Za-z]+) and you should be on the right track.
Also, be advised that if you add the ignore case flag then you could
simplify it to ([A-Z]+)
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Joshua L. Olson
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