URL Mapping - ApacheCon 2005
mod_rewrite examples (1)
  • Problem: Ugly URLs.

    
  http://www.server.com/cgi-bin/program.cgi?A=arg1&B=arg2
    		  

  • Want to have prettier ones.

    
  http://www.server.com/program/arg1/arg2
    		  

  • Solution: mod_rewrite

    
  RewriteEngineOn
  RewriteRule ^/program/([^/]+)/([^/]+) \
    /cgi-bin/program.cgi?A=$1&B=$2 [PT]
    		  

  • [^/]+ means "one or more character that is not a slash"

  • ( ) traps the results in a variable

  • [PT] Means "passthrough" which lets it still be treated as a URL, not a file path
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