Is it possible to achieve with mod_rewrite...

[quickstopman]

is it possible to achieve something like this

instead of action.php?action=signup

you could do action:signup

since im not that good with RewriteRule i tried this (it didn't work)

RewriteRule /action:([a-z]) /action.php?action=$1

and if it is possible could you show me how?

 

Thanks,

Zack

 

[wildteen88]

You cannot use special characters such as colons as part of a url path.

 

You can have your url as  /action/signup or just /signup

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^action/([a-z]+)$ /test.php?action=$1 [NC,L] # eg: action/signup
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ /test.php?action=$1 [NC,L]        # eg: /signup

[quickstopman]

the confusing part is that ive seen it done before

on a little video site called

vimeo

when you view a blog the url is like

http://www.vimeo.com/blog:122

122 being the ID

is that being done inside the script

where it takes apart the url and singles out the 122

and go through the database to find the ID

would that be PHP

or some other odd language

[wildteen88]

I have done a bit of googling and this is an issue to do with libapr when Apache is installed on Windows. Due to Windows not allowing characters such as colons within file names libapr is not allowing the requested url. However strangely enough if your url is say - mysite.com/foo/bar:test - then it'll work fine.

 

Whether a fix is going to be released or not in the next/future versions of Apache for Windows I don't know. This only affects Apache installations on Windows.

[quickstopman]

hmm, well my server is a linux, so it should work then! right?

my question is how would the code look.. ???

-Zack

[wildteen88]

If Apache is installed on a Linux server then the following should work:

RewriteRule ^action:([a-z]+)$ /action.php?action=$1 [NC,L]

[quickstopman]

Yes that works!!!

thanks alot wildteen!!

 

-Zack