Help me make this rewrite rule in Apache

ganninu · 01-06-2004, 02:05 PM

What would be the rewrite rule to redirect a page from www.domain.com/cgibin/some_page.html to www.domain.com/cgi-bin/some_page.html? (cgi-bin is the keyworD)

Assume a general case, i.e. all cgibin's converted to cgi-bin's

I tried:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^cgibin$ cgi-bin [R]

but didn't appear to work!!

thanks in advance, ganninu..

trickykid · 01-06-2004, 02:11 PM

Have you checked out the rewrite documentation for apache here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

After making your changes, did you restart apache?

ganninu · 01-06-2004, 02:17 PM

Yes I did both of them....

fr0zen · 01-06-2004, 02:23 PM

Uhh. Try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/(.*)cgibin(.*)$ /$1cgi-bin$2 [R]

Basically, your expression is looking merely for a request string exactly equal to cgibin. Since that is not what was being sent, it wouldn't work.

Instead, I made the one above that says this: Start with a / followed by 0 or more characters, followed by cgibin, preceeded by 0 or more characters until the end.

The replace string includes back-references, otherwise you'd be rewriting to another location other than what you intend.

ganninu · 01-06-2004, 02:33 PM

This would be good as well, right? -

RewriteRule (.*)cgibin(.*) $1cgi-bin$2 [R]

fr0zen · 01-06-2004, 02:40 PM

I believe that has the same functionality as what you wish to do. It is certainly the most generic instance.

ganninu · 01-06-2004, 02:51 PM

Ok thanks... my mistake was basically the subsitution part... This answer has taught me something important which i used to take for granted

By the way, I liked your wallpaper!!

ganninu

ganninu · 01-07-2004, 01:57 AM

Hi, I still got a problem!!! When enter this URL:
some_vhost.domain.net/cgibin/some_page.html

I am redirected to:
some_vhost.domain.net/data/httpd/vhosts/some_vhost.domain.net/httpdocs/cgi-bin/some_page.html

i.e. I get the extra data/httpd/vhosts/some_vhost.domain.net/httpdocs....

What is happening here, and how can i get rid of it?

Ganninu.

stickman · 01-07-2004, 08:30 AM

Try something like:
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/cgibin/(.*) /$1/cgi-bin/$2 [R,L]