Hi! On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:42:54PM -0700, Scott Chapman wrote: > I have a web site with EmbPerl where URLS are into specific directories > (unique directories are created for each user and the pages are currently > symlinked into the directories and accessed there).
First let me say that I agree to Aaaron regarding his comment on security respective privacy concerns. > I want to make it so that the current URL format is maintained if > possible: > currently: > http://website/subdir/UNIQUEDIR/page.epl > I don't want the page.epl to be in that directory any more but I want the web > site to redirect all such pages to a page.epl with the UNIQUEDIR as a > parameter. > > Is this possible? Of course this is possible. If your're unique id follows a syntax, which no other directory has, you can use the Apache directives Alias or AliasMatch from mod_alias (a default compiled in apache standard module). Or you use mod_rewrite (a non-default apache standard module), if it's a little bit trickier or if you want to check if those unique id directory which is requested really exists. Do something like AliasMatch /subdir/(regexp-for-uniquedir)/page.epl /path/to/htdocs/subdir/page.epl This should be similiar to the often used vice versa case, where files are aliased into a lot of non-existing (short said virtual) directories. In mod_rewrite this should look something like this (the second line gets evaluated first!): # Only remap file if directory exists, RewriteCond /path/to/htdocs/$1$2 -d # Only remap file if file exists, RewriteCond /path/to/htdocs/$1page.epl -f # Remap page.epl to ../page.epl in uniqui-id-directories RewriteRule ^/(subdir/)(regexp-for-uniquedir)/page\.epl(?.*)?$ /$1page.epl$3 (Untested, so no guaranties... :-) Kind regards, Axel Beckert -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Axel Beckert ecos electronic communication services gmbh Internetconnect * Webserver/-design/-datenbanken * Consulting Post: Tulpenstrasse 5 D-55276 Dienheim b. Mainz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +49 6133 926530 WWW: http://www.ecos.de/ Fax: +49 6133 925152 ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
