mod rewrite Issues

Rewriting questions

[kerplunk]

We're having a little trouble with mod_rewrite, I think. I'm not familiar with mod_rewrite, but here's what we're trying to do:

We have user profiles on our site. The URLs are http://www.example.com/profiles/username-here

We've been using the Apache/mod_rewrite configuration below, and it works, but is it the best way to do what we're trying to achieve? Especially for a high-traffic site? Another problem is that we get a ton of "File not found" errors in our Apache error_log, even though the URL works correctly.

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
DocumentRoot /directory/to/our/site/here
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
 <Location / >
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
 </Location>
 <Location /profiles/ >
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
 RewriteRule!\.(js¦ico¦gif¦jpg¦png¦css)$ /profiles/index.php
 </Location>
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
</VirtualHost>

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:24 pm (utc) on May 17, 2007]
[edit reason] Example.com [/edit]

[phranque]

..., but here's what we're trying to do:

..., but is it the best way to do what we're trying to achieve?

you haven't actually described what you are trying to do.
also an examplified url that fails and the corresponding error log message would help.
and can we assume this is in the server config file vs. the per-directory files?

[jdMorgan]

And note that there is no RewriteRule in the first <Location> container, so the RewriteConds do nothing.

Jim

[kerplunk]

Hi,

I'm just trying to accomplish:

If someone goes to http://www.example.com/profiles/whatever-here that it gets directed to http://www.example.com/profiles/index.php and that will handle it...

I think :)

[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:27 pm (utc) on May 17, 2007]
[edit reason] Example.com [/edit]

[kerplunk]

(The URL should still show as: http://www.example.com/profiles/whatever-here)

[edited by: jdMorgan at 6:27 pm (utc) on May 17, 2007]
[edit reason] Example.com, Please see TOS. [/edit]

[kerplunk]

Sorry to post again, but I think this would work, right?

<Location /profiles/ >
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/profiles/index.php$
RewriteRule .* /profiles/index.php
</Location>

[jdMorgan]

Looks OK, what were the results of testing it?

Jim

[kerplunk]

It's working good :)

Still getting some "File not found" errors, but I am guessing that has to do with our site code and not mod_rewrite.

Thanks for the help, though.

[g1smd]

Just to be picky with terminology...

If you still want the original URL to show up then that is a rewrite not a redirect.