Paul Furman wrote:
> Paul Furman wrote:
>
>> I've tried a million things and the regex is I think what's stumping
>> me. Here's a little simpler one: I'd like to be able to apply a
>> simple freaking wildcard for
>> ?SC=go.php&DIR=* [note my star wildcard at the end]
>> ?SC=go.php&DIR=(.*)?????????
>> ?SC=go.php&DIR=(.)??????????
>> ????????????????????????????
>>
>> then for rewrite, I don't know how to tell it to replace that gunk
>> with nothing. How do indicate "nothing"? do I need to create a little
>> token in there so there's something to talk about & convert to
>> [?SC=go.php&DIR=]? And I think I want to go both ways so if people
>> type the long url it changes to the new short one & if they type the
>> short one, it translates into the real long one on the server.
>>
>> I'm exasperated & making almost no progress. There is no such thing as
>> 'regex for idiots' as far as I can tell.
>
>
> OK here's a simple one:
>
> RewriteRule ^?SC=go.php&DIR=(.)$ $1 [R]
>
> the (.) is supposed to indicate "anything" like *
PS I just spent a few hours getting some tutoring on this, the (.)
should be (.+) and what I wanted is not possible, I need to list the
destination folders behind the query in the url, there is no way to just
wipe it out. Fortunately there aren't that many top folders & I can make
everything below follow the top rules. Unfortunately, now I need to
change all my coding to absolute urls, ack what a nightmare. It's all
php generated though so maybe not too bad.
> the $1 is supposed to replace that minus the ?SC=go.php&DIR=
>
> I get this in the error log:
> RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^?SC=go.php&DIR=(.)$'
>
> Now if it worked, that would take me to a folder which does not exist so
> I'd also need the reverse to follow this rule without the [R] In this
> case there is nothing left to search for short of a full list of all the
> possible paths that might follow [?SC=go.php&DIR=]. One thing I could do
> is look for the /1/ because this all happens under /1/ but I already set
> this:
> RewriteBase /1
> so I'm not sure if I can do that.
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