[Webdev] Mod_rewrite revisted yet again :-)

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> What if a section has a space or more in its name? So for example
> "Cooking Tips". With php I can urlencode this to /features/Cooking+Tips/
> But I would like to get mod_rewrite using the above rules to work
> this out.
>
Any particular reason why you need to do the regex within mod_rewrite? I
mean, unless there are files under /features that you want to skip - and you
can still get at those using passthru() or the other flesystem functions -
you gain much more control doing it from within PHP. Not only is it easier
to work with the regular expressions, but you can use even more complex
Perl-style regexes (PCRE) if you wish.

I really only use mod_rewrite for simple regex rules. In your example, I'd
be more inclined to map the whole of /features onto one PHP script, and let
the PHP script handle the URL rewriting. For example, I'm doing the
IrelandOffline Blackout website at the moment, with this set of RewriteRules
(this is on my development box, ignore the hostname and IP address):

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.2>
    ServerName blackout.irelandoffline.dev
    DocumentRoot /home/sites/irelandoffline.org/blackout
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(scripts|images)
    RewriteRule .* /scripts/buildpage.php
</VirtualHost>

So basically, I'm passing through all the content pages on the site and
reading the $REQUEST_URI in the PHP script, rather than reading vars set in
the $QUERY_STRING. The same process could be used for your pages, just by
building a query out of the $REQUEST_URI. Of course, you *could* use
mod_rewrite regular expressions, but it all seems a bit OTT to me. I find it
much easier to handle it within the PHP script.

> PS. Thanks to Adam beacher for helping to get this far ;-)
>
No bother. And it's Beecher. :)

adam