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I want to use in the cgi the articlecode _and_ the longnamearticlename222
RewriteRule ^/([^_]*)\.html$ /cgi-bin/go.cgi?articlecode111=${icaolist:$1}&name=? [L]
In mod_rewrite I have not found a representation for the longnamearticlename****?
Or is there a trick to work with RewriteCond and $N?
Thank you, Maggi
It would be quite helpful if you could provide a "before and after" sample of the original and rewritten URLs, using "example.com" as the domain name.
Jim
The goal is to use the codinglist.txt to translate longname to citycode, but to let the cgi-string also transfer the longname to the page.html for usage as a text string.
[example.com...] -> /cgi-bin/go.cgi?citycode=111&longname=Alabama-Downtown
[example.com...] -> /cgi-bin/go.cgi?citycode=111&longname=Alabama-Mystreet
In mod_rewrite I have not found a representation to "catch" the "longname" as the first element in the RewriteMap for a later usage in the cgi string.
Or might I use RewriteCond to catch the "longname" and use $N in the cgi-string?
RewriteCond xyz?
RewriteRule ^/(.*)\.html$ /cgi-bin/go.cgi?citycode=${codinglist:$1}&longname=$N
If the "longname" in your first example incoming URL is "Alabama-Downtown", then I believe that all you need to do is to repeat the $1 in your substitution string:
RewriteRule ^/([^.]*)\.html$ /cgi-bin/go.cgi?citycode=${codinglist:$1}&[b]longname=$1[/b]
The other change I made -- to the regular-expression in the pattern -- is just a speed-up; Avoid using ".*" where possible, because it is often ambiguous and therefore requires more processing time. Rather than saying ".*", meaning "match any number of any character," and then leaving it up to subsequent processing to exclude the ".html" on the end, the expression "[^.]*" means, "match any number of any characters, up to but not including the first period you find." Therefore, this speeds up the pattern-matching a bit in this case.
Jim
