Re: Would this work? (mod_rewrite)

[Wed Apr 17 18:04:19 2002] [alert] [client 172.131.190.148] /home/swiften/public_html/.htaccess: RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '*' ----Original Message Follows---- From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@stoic.net> To: "[ rswfire ]" <rswfire@hotmail.com> CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Would this work? (mod_rewrite) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:14:13 -0500 (CDT) Do you have access to your server's error_log file? With any luck there'll be a more informative message there (something like "Miguel was too lazy to pay sufficient attention to the following Rewrite caveat: xxxxxxx"). miguel On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote:

mod_bwlimited, mod_php4, mod_log_bytes, mod_frontpage, mod_ssl, mod_setenvif, mod_so, mod_auth, mod_access, mod_rewrite, mod_alias, mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap, mod_asis, mod_cgi, mod_dir, mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_status, mod_negotiation, mod_mime, mod_log_config, mod_env, http_core ----Original Message Follows---- From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@stoic.net> To: "[ rswfire ]" <rswfire@hotmail.com> CC: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Would this work? (mod_rewrite) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:55:33 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote: Assume I want *.domain.*/*.* to automatically call index.php (without the

user knowing and without any redirecting at all): RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase    /
RewriteRule    *.* index.php [R]

I don't know what in the world the [R] is, but it's in almost all of the

mod_rewrite examples... :-) RewriteRule * index.php Don't use the [R] - that tells it to create an external redirect. It's used in many of the examples because in many real-world cases people are using rewrite rules to coax invalid URLs into valid ones, and this way there's at least some chance that the bad ones will get updated. miguel _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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