Is mod_rewrite all or nothing

[jsladek]

Hello

 

I have a domain that I would like like to use ugly URLs and also pretty urls in the same directory.  If I use mod_rewrite will it rewrite all urls or just the ones that match the rewrite rule?

 

What I mean by this is I would like to use.

 

http://www.yourwebsite.com/index.php?pg=login

 

and also

 

http://www.yourwebsite.com/drexel

 

The first link will just function normally but the second would rewrite to something like the following

 

http://www.yourwebsite.com/public.php?orginization=drexel

 

I'm looking into mod_rewrite to accomplish this.  Will it work for me or am I barking up the wrong tree?

 

Thanks,

John

 

btw, it seems that myspace works similar.  Unless they actually create a directory for each user and actually store the html content there as if it were its own site.

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Mod Rewrite is typically to take dynamic pages and make them look static.  So you'd want to take

 

http://www.yourwebsite.com/public.php?orginization=drexel

 

And make it look like this

 

http://www.yourwebsite.com/drexel

 

So Google and other search engines can index it better.  I redid my whole site, except my forum, but I still need help with a question that's been unanswered for weeks now.

[trq]

If I use mod_rewrite will it rewrite all urls or just the ones that match the rewrite rule?

 

It will only rewrite urls that match a rule. Accessing your pages directly/passing parameters will still function as per normal as long as you don't trigger any rewrite rule.

[jsladek]

so the trick is to write a rule that only triggers on public.php (if that is what I use).  Makes sense..

 

[jsladek]

Damn it, public.php is what the url needs to become, this will be a little trickier than I thought.

 

-John

[jsladek]

Here is a rule that I came up with that seems to work.

 

RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /public.php?org=$1

 

it looks for a period in the filename

 

Maybe it will help someone in the future.

 

-john

[jsladek]

Just a little additional info.  I was shown another way to do this and it has apache actually check to see if the file or directory exists on the server.  This is probably a better way.

 

RewriteBase / 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public.php?sub=$1 [L]

 

-Regards

John