Kewl :)

How about listing the stub files you want to rewrite instead of the folders you don't want to ? Might be easier on maintainance... any reason not to do this? (apart from digging the 404s :P)

Hm... Apart from digging the 404s, no, no difference at all. Change the RewriteCond lines to look like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stub1|stub2|etc)(.*)$ 

Like I said, I'm sure there's a way to use the -d and -f flags to test before rewriting, which would be the easiest set of rules to maintain, since there'd be nothing hard coded at all. I haven't cracked that one, yet, tho.

I was hoping for a clean URL like what Mambo SEF does.

www.xxx.com/content/1/2/3

It will be great if there's a way to do it with b2evo

;)

Works real nice!

I don't understand it all, especially why there are two rules with the same condition, but it works!

I'm just a little bit annoyed by three details personnaly:
1) it won't work on sub/ with nothing after the / (but stub with no slash works)
2) manual without .php conflicts with the apache manual :P
3) I can't seem to get it to work in subdirectories :-/

Anyway, Thanks for sharing this Isaac!

ah, just fixed my #1:

RewriteRule (^[^\./]+)/(.*)$ $1\.php/$2

ah, just found out how to get rid of the double rule!

I narrowed it down to this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(news|manual)(.*)$
RewriteRule (^[^\./]+)(/.*)?$ $1\.php$2

Hehe that's me again getting high in one of those geeky reverse engineering moments :P

I just narrowed the 4 line thing down to one, and it works for subdorectories too!

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(news|manual|dev/todo)(/.*)?$  $1\.php$2

news.php & manual.php are two stub files in the root.

todo.php is a stub file in the dev subdir.

One important thing to keep in mind is to set the stub/utl name to news and not news.php -- otherwise, b2evo won't recognize it and won't be able to decode the extrapath.

After reading the f*ing [url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html]manual[/url]:

mod_rewrite maps the source suburl to a file, so it's not even necessary to pass the extrapath back, there is just no way to read it back from b2evo ltare (at least, none that I know of...)

So my single line can be further narrowed down to this:

RewriteRule ^(news|manual|dev/todo)(/.*)?$  $1.php

(removed an unnecessary \ too)

How does it work?

1) check that the sub URL (relative to .htaccess) starts with news, manual or dev/todo AND that the only possible thing after that be an extra path (starting with /) (the querystring '?param=val' is not included in the suburl being tested here)

2) map this URL to a file using the same name we found at the start and ended with .php .

Hard to stop when you've started! :roll:

Here's the highest I could get:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(news|dev/todo)/?$  $1.html
RewriteRule ^(news|dev/todo)(/.*)?$  $1.php

Not only will this silently call the matching .php file for your stub, but before that it will check if you have generated a static .html page for the main page (when there are no parameters)

For those who did not realize by now, Isaac has turned me into a mod_rewrite junkie overnight!

Here's my latest fix:

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(news|man|dev/todo)/?$  $1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(news|man|dev/todo)(/.*)?$  $1.php

This pushes the beauty of it all even further since it will allow you to have a folder with the same name as the stub, for example news, and it will allow you to fetch static files inside, for example /news/img/image.gif when /news is the static/dynamic main blog page, and /news/2004/06 the dynamic archive for june etc.

I just wonder if I can make this even better :P

Francois, that's nice!

I was using the same RewriteCond twice because you can't have one condition apply to multiple rules, even though you can have multiple conds apply to one rule. (The fix, of course, is to recode the conds and rules so that they apply to all cases, which is what you did.)

Mod_rewrite is really fun, but I haven't had time to really dig into it like I'd like to. (I also found out that it can mess up subdomains, if they're mapped to a folder. Had to put a separate .htaccess with "RewriteEngine Off" inside isaacschlueter.com/webreports to prevent the bad get errors when I went to webreports.isaacschlueter.com)

fp wrote:

I just wonder if I can make this even better

I wonder if you can, too. Here's the challenge, and I'll grant a prize to the first person who solves this :)

User requests http://example.com/foo/bar/1/2/3

It'll check these options, in order:
1. IF there's a file named foo.php (or foo.htm(l?), if there's no path info or query string), then go to foo.php/bar/1/2/3, or foo.htm(l?) - Quit here.
2. If no file named foo.php, then try a folder named /foo/, and start over in there.
3. If no folder named /foo/..., then rewrite to /index.php/foo/... - quit here.

If 2, then
1. Check for a file named bar.php (or bar.html? if there's nothing after that) - if it exists, rewrite to foo/bar.php/1/2/3 and stop
2. Else, check for a folder named foo/bar/ and start over in there if it exists.
3. Else, rewrite to foo/index.php/bar/1/2/3 and stop

etc.

User only gets a 404 error if it gets down to /foo/bar/1/2/3, and there is no 3.php, 3.htm, or 3.html, but any file or index.php in any of those directories along that road will stop the process.

Redeclaring the RewriteBase at each folder is acceptable, as is requiring that there be a separate .htaccess in each folder - but bonus points if you can do all that with a single file in the root. And, of course,

If you can do that and make it work without having error 500s for infinite rewrites loops, then you win the prize. I'm thinking it'll probably be something like $20, since i'm cheap, but if anyone else wants to contribute to the prize fund, you're more than welcome, of course! If you can do it in few enough lines, then the prize will be more.

I don't claim that this will be particularly useful, and it will probably have some wicked server overhead, but it's more for esthetic reasons that I want to see if it's possible, just because I think it'd be cool, so that's why I've been thinking about it, and why I'm offering a prize for solving the puzzle.

what i use is this

- name the stub file as "foobar" no .php
- add this to the .htaccess

<Files ~ "(foobar)$">
	ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

if you have more than one stub file, use

<Files ~ "(foobar|foobar1|foobar2)$">
	ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

What i use is this : (almost like kiesow)

<FilesMatch "^[^\.]*$">
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

What?s the better way to get rid of the .php extension ?

[]?s
- Walter

Walter,
Read the other posts in this thread.

My files still have .php on them. But the .php is not in the *url*.

Oh ! .. i had renamed my php from files too..

Sorry me ! I will read the entire thread !

G?d bless yoU!

[]?s
- Walter

hey, Isaac, I have read everithing now... ;) Sorry me about the post before..

But I have another question.. I have other blogs hosted on my site..
I have 3 blogs on total :

http://waltercruz.com/blog/aprocura
http://waltercruz.com/blog/cancoes
http://waltercruz.com/blog/apaixonate

on the root of my site, I?m using a .htacess with these line:

Redirect /cancoes http://waltercruz.com/blog/cancoes
Redirect /aprocura http://waltercruz.com/blog/aprocura
Redirect /apaixonate http://waltercruz.com/blog/apaixonate

Yes ?

But this only redirects.. someone type http://waltercruz.com/aprocura to /blog/aprocura..

Can I alter the URL using the mod_rewrite ?

how this wil be ?

I think that will be someone like (in the root folder .htacess)

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(aprocura|cancoes|apaixonate)(/.*)?$ /blog/$1.php

It?s right ?

thank you for all!

[]?s
- Walter

Yep, you've pretty much got it, walter.

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(aprocura|cancoes|apaixonate)/?$  blog/$1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(aprocura|cancoes|apaixonate)(/.*)?$  blog/$1.php

B)

<bump> I have been playing with WordPress and they have some really nice rewrite templates to get some really meaningful and clean URIs out of the system.

So for example a value like:

/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

would give you a permalink like:

/archives/2003/05/23/my-cheese-sandwich/

It even generates the code to stick in the .htaccess file for your cut'n'paste delight.

It would be really nice to have this kind of functionality built into b2e, I am sure someone can sort this out - right?

Hello everybody!

Ok, so I have finally gotten clean urls to work, sort of. b2evo sits in a subdirectory called "blogs/"., and the page is correctly accessed when a url like this one is requested:
http://www.unsere-weltreise.net/blogs/devblog/2005/02/10/keuch_aetz_argh

As you can see, the page is loaded correctly, but the relative references from within that file do work anymore (stylesheets, etc.). Any idead how to fix that using .htaccess?

This is what I have in my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(krissi|ute|devblog)/?$  /blogs/$1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(krissi|ute|devblog)(/.*)?$  /blogs/$1.php

Thx a lot!

Ok, never mind, I fixed this using

<base href="<?php echo ( $baseurl.'/' ); ?>"/>

which is ok, i guess. if there is a smarter way, using .htaccess, I'm all ears/eyes.

Thx.

Hello i was reading this post , and its very confusing , evry while a code is added or something is added ..

plz try 2 make it more readable .

my question is :

i added the following code in the .htacess

RewriteEngine On 

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it: 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s 
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$ 
RewriteRule ^(new|ute|devblog)/?$  /blogs/$1.html 

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo! 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s 
RewriteRule ^(new|ute|devblog)(/.*)?$  /blogs/$1.php 

i have a b2evolution ,

www.domain.com/new

when i want to test if evrything is correct , i test something like

www.domain.com/new/2005/05

but i receive an error page

should i change something in the mode rewrite code ?

thank's

This is what I have on my site, and it works.

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(all|blog|linkblog|click)/?$  $1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(all|blog|linkblog|click)(/.*)?$  $1.php

This rewrite setup works great and I'm using it on a site that just switched from Movable Type, but there's one problem. Each user has their own directory, user1, user2, etc. They each also have a stub file on the same level (web root) user1.php, user2.php. With my .htaccess set up like most of the people in this thread the users can keep static files in their folders, and use extra-path info, so www.brendoman.com/user1/photos/car.jpg goes to a static image file, but www.brendoman.com/user1/2005/05/car goes to a blog post. So, we can get files from their subfolders, but what we can't do is just go to one of the subfolders. Here's a real example: www.brendoman.com/wendytime/engagement/index.html works, but www.brendoman.com/wendytime/engagement just takes the browser back to wendytime.php . Is there a way to tweak the .htaccess file to make this work better?

Ok, PersonMan, correct me if I've got this wrong:

user1.php = blog stub for user "blah"
user1/... = user folder for "blah"

Requests for blah/whatever should go to the blog, IF it doesn't point at a file OR a folder.

So, if the folder structure is like this:

root
  +-user1.php
  |
  +-user1
   |
   +-folder
    |
    +-index.html
    +-car.jpg

then a request for user1/folder/ should actually go to the FOLDER user1/folder, and NOT user1.php/folder.

If that's right, try this, replacing the "user1|user2|..." with the actual stub/folder names.

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(user1|user2|user3)/?$  $1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(user1|user2|user3)(/.*)?$  $1.php

The !-d means "if the request filename does not resolve to a directory".

That did it. I added this line and it started working:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 

Thanks, Isaac!

Oops. That won't work afterall. The problem comes when you type www.brendoman.com/wendytime in the address bar. The whole point of the mod_rewrite code is for that url to take you to the blog, but now it shows the directory contents. I could make a second stub file, call it index.php and put it in that folder.

How about this?

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(user1|user2|user3)/?$  $1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(user1|user2|user3)(/.*)?$  $1.php

# since wendytime/ is a directory, it won't get the last rule,
# so do another one here.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html !-s
RewriteRule ^(user1|user2|user3)$  $1.php

Hi,
This only seems to give me my default blog.
I have 3 blogs and whatever link i select it still stays on the default.

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html  -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^(all|religion|politics|links)/?$  $1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(all|religion|politics|links)(/.*)?$  $1.php

can anyone help?
thanks

Thanks I got it

Hi,

is it possible b2evolution changed the way to handle stub files? This is what I want:

domain/blog1
domain/blog2

but I can only get domain/blog1.php and domain/blog2.php

I tried the solutions posted for prior b2evolution versions, but I can't get them to work.

If I understand the prior postings right,

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stub1|stub2|etc)(.*)$
RewriteRule (^[^\./]+)/(.+)$  $1\.php/$2

should stripp off .php extension. But it doesn't. I get an 404 error.

Using another option with automatically adding .php extension to names without extension shows the skin, but omittes the blog content that cannot be found.

May anybody help me? The URL of the page is http://www.amnesty-muenster-osnabrueck.de/ and, for example, http://www.amnesty-muenster-osnabrueck.de/1176.php.

Thanks,

Jan

PS.: mod rewrite is activated.

Hm, I really don't know what I'm doing wrong.

This is what my .htaccess looks like:

# Apache configuration for the blog folder

# this will select the default blog template to be displayed
# if the URL is just .../blogs/
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

# this will make register globals off in b2's directory
# just put a '#' sign before these three lines if you don't want that
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_flag register_globals off
</IfModule>

# If you're using Apache 2, you may wish to try this for clean URLs:
# AcceptPathInfo On

RewriteEngine On

# If we have an .html file for the bare subject (no extra path, no query string), use it:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^(1176|1178)/?$ $1.html

# If the subject/extrapath does not match an existing file, call b2evo!
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(1176|1178)(/.*)?$ $1.php

So, URL domain.com/1176 or /1176 should work, hm?

But they don't, as http://www.amnesty-muenster-osnabrueck.de/1176 and http://www.amnesty-muenster-osnabrueck.de/1178 show. :(

Would anybody be so kind to help me, please? I'm using 1.8-beta, and I really don't know what to do.

Thanks, Jan

Hm, anybody who has a clue?

In the meantime, I recognized the following .htaccess entry works basicly:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -s
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^(1176|1178)/?$ $1.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteRule ^(1176|1178)(/.*)?$ http://www.amnesty-muenster-osnabrueck.de/$1.php

New is the addition http://www.amnesty-muenster-osnabrueck.de.

But there is one problem left: Visited URLs are not marked as visited links.

Maybe this is a first hint what the problem could be?[/code]

Is there a similar type mod for a Windows 2003 server? What's the "stub file" that's mentioned on the settings page?

This is a very old topic way back when b2evo was still version 0.8.x, started by somebody who is no longer in the b2evo team.

I'll close this one, cause it's no longer valid, and when somebody comes up with the right sollution for 1.8, that person can start a new topic