-- Christoph Dorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 12:19 PM -0700):
> What does the "-" exactly mean in this rule? I know what it does now,
> but I have never seen it before.
>
> RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
>
> I cannot find any documentation for it. Can you point me to it.
Can't find a link quickly, but what it means is to use the original path
-- it's kind of like using '-' as an argument in a CLI script to
indicate "use STDIN".
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> > Greets --
> >
> > A number of users have reported issues using the Dojo package shipped
> > with 1.6.0. Originally, my thought was that we had a dirty install.
> > However, a couple of comments tipped me off to the real culprit: the
> > RewriteRule recommended in our Zend_Controller QuickStart and the one
> > recommended in the QuickStart guide.
> >
> > First, some background.
> >
> > The "recommended" RewriteRules look like the following:
> >
> > RewriteEngine on
> > RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php
> >
> > This rule essentially says, "unless you're an image, CSS file, or
> > Javascript file, I'm going to route you to the front controller."
> >
> > Many of Dojo's dijits utilize templates when creating widgets, and the
> > content is then inserted to the DOM. In a release or custom build of
> > Dojo, all templates are interred into the source -- meaning that they
> > are embedded in the javascript. In a source build, however, these
> > templates are in separate files -- HTML files. If you look carefully at
> > the RewriteRule above, HTML files are not part of it. What this means is
> > that when a request is made to such a file, it's processed incorrectly,
> > and the dijit is not able to build its DOM nodes correctly -- which
> > leads to the errors users were reporting.
> >
> > Fortunately, there is a solution: a better rewrite rule. The one
> > presented below has been circulating around in a variety of places, and
> > was in fact the reason I never saw the reported issues myself. Instead
> > of relying on the file extension to determine whether or not to rewrite,
> > it relies on file presence:
> >
> > RewriteEngine On
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
> > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
> > RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
> > RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
> >
> > In essence, what this rule is saying is, "if the requested resource is
> > not a valid symbolic link, file, or directory, rewrite to the front
> > controller; otherwise, serve it." This rewrite rule solves the problem
> > of being unable to grab the source templates, thus allowing the shipped
> > Dojo to work correctly. It will also jcontinue to work when you create a
> > custom build.
> >
> > I will be updating the Zend_Controller documentation, and also the
> > QuickStart, to reflect this.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Christoph Dorn
> <http://www.ChristophDorn.com/> http://www.ChristophDorn.com/
>
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
