Re: [Radiant] htaccess and file/directory redirection

[Sean Cribbs]

You shouldn't have a problem if the URL points directly to a file; the built-in rewrite rules take care of that.  If it points to a directory, you may need something else, perhaps individual rewrite rules for those directories.  Are you expecting directory listings or opening an index page ( index.php or index.html or something) in those?

From the Apache 2.0 docs:

Solution:

The solution to this subtle problem is to let the server add the trailing slash automatically. To do this correctly we have to use an external redirect, so the browser correctly requests subsequent images etc. If we only did a internal rewrite, this would only work for the directory page, but would go wrong when any images are included into this page with relative URLs, because the browser would request an in-lined object. For instance, a request for image.gif in /~quux/foo/index.html would become /~quux/image.gif without the external redirect!

So, to do this trick we write:

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase    /~quux/
RewriteRule    ^foo$  foo/  [R]

          
The crazy and lazy can even do the following in the
          top-level .htaccess file of their homedir.
          But notice that this creates some processing
          overhead.

RewriteEngine  on
RewriteBase    /~quux/
RewriteCond    %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  -d
RewriteRule    ^(.+[^/])$           $1/  [R]


        

Sean Cribbs
seancribbs.com

On 9/15/06, Dave Crossland < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

I have a site, http://uk.tug.org/ , that has some 'file' URIs such as

http://uk.tug.org/activities
http://uk.tug.org/baskerville

and some 'directory' URIs such as

http://uk.tug.org/Activities/
http://uk.tug.org/Baskerville/

Since Radiant is case sensitive, I would expect visiting

http://uk.tug.org/Activities

to 301 redirect to

http://uk.tug.org/Activities/

as normally happens with Apache.

However, this is not working with the default Radiant .htaccess in place.

I have asked my host's support team if there was something in their
server level apache configuration that would alter things, but there
isn't - if I move the .htaccess to .htaccess.old then the directory
behavior works as normal.

I am totally stumped :-)

--
Regards,
Dave
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