Dave, You might take a look at Django. It does url rewriting automatically, not sure how though. It may be worth a look, especially the test application listed below. Kyle Ambroff gave a great presentation on Django a couple years back at an ACM meeting at Sac State. Maybe we could twist his arm into giving one at Lugod. I definitely intend to configure a django server, probably after this semester is over though. ;-)
I see several Django books on Safari. http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com Python Web Development with Django® By: Jeff Forcier; Paul Bissex; Wesley Chun Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours By: Brad Dayley The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right By: Adrian Holovaty; Jacob Kaplan-Moss Excerpted from the following book on Chapter 4. An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium by C. Titus Brown; Gheorghe Gheorghiu; Jason Huggins 4.1.1. Installing and running the poll application 1. Install Django (see (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/)). 2. Download the demonstration app, at (http://webtesting.idyll.org/resources/django-poll.zip). 3. Unpack django-poll.zip (it will unpack into a subdirectory named django-poll) and change into the mysite sub-directory. 4. Run python manage.py runserver. It will start a web server on http://localhost:8000; to make sure that it is running, visit http://localhost:8000/polls. brian On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, David Spencer, Internet Handyman wrote: > Harold, that worked perfectly! Thanks so much!! > > In looking at the results, I was wondering if it's possible to "hide" > the resulting URL for SEO purposes? In other words, when the link is > to product-Another-Thing.php, the URL changes internally to > product.php?name=Another-Thing but it doesn't update in the location > string. I've slogged about with it this morning, but as usual, all > I've managed to do is break it. Any further ideas? > > Thanks again, > > > -- Dave Spencer, PageWeavers > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:36 PM, David Spencer <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I've killed the better part of the morning and this afternon trying to > > figure out this use of Apache's mod_rewrite. > > > Welcome to mod_rewrite. There's a logging facility that can create a log of > which rules were tried, but it doesn't help in this case where you only have > one rule. > > > > RewriteEngine On > > RewriteRule ^/?product-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)\.php$ product.php?name=$1 [ R=301,L] > > > > You did a gread job here, but ... > > 1) No spaces in the [] at the end of the line, so you want [R=301,L] > > 2) I found I needed to add this option also: > Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch > > 3) You almost certainly also want QSA (query string append), making it > [R=301,L,QSA] at the end of the line. This will add the name parameter to > whatever other parameters were sent, instead of dropping the original > parameters: > > product-a.php?quantity=4 -> product.php?name=a&quantity=4 > > You can check Apache's error_log if this still isn't working for hints. > > Harold > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
