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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:58:07 -0400
From: Dwayne Tharpe <dtharpe@unc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] .htaccess error URGENT

I tried that but no luck.  I thought there would be something that I 
could use to just tell it ignore that it's a subdirectory name and go 
ahead with the re-write.

Dwayne

Andy Buckley wrote:
> Joshua Slive wrote:
>> On 6/29/06, Dwayne Tharpe <dtharpe@unc.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm new to this and have never used mod-rewrite before or used regular
>>> expressions.
>>>
>>> We have a need to mod_rewrite a link.  Below is what I'm using in a
>>> .htaccess file:
>>>
>>> RewriteEngine on
>>> Options FollowSymLinks
>>> RewriteRule ^overview$ /guide/index.cfm?item=Chapter&Chapter_ID=C342 
>>> [L]
>>>
>>> The problem is that "overview" is the name of a subdirectory under
>>> guide, so I get an error (403 I think)
>>> when it tries to rewrite. I can't rename the subdirectory and the users
>>> are demanding that they be able to use just the word "overview" as a
>>> hyperlink.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions? And I'm under a major time constraint :(
>>
>> What does the error log say?  What does the RewriteLog say?
>>
>> The easist way to do this would be to put the RewriteRule in the main
>> server config rather than in .htaccess.  Then you can simply use
>> RewriteRule ^/guide/overview$ 
>> /guide/index.cfm?item=Chapter&Chapter_ID=C342 [L]
>
> Otherwise, as you're using a .htaccess file, you probably need to add a
> "RewriteBase /guide" statement. Otherwise you get into a sort of
> chicken/egg scenario about the order of resolving URLs to bits of the
> filesystem: see the bit at the top of the mod-rewrite docs for more info.
>
> Andy
>
>
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Dwayne Tharpe
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