Re: how to get rid of /index.php/ in short URLs (dirty hack for now) [repost]

Chris Dudley <[email protected]> wrote in
news:pan.2003.05.12.12.51.33.905998-gn8pmO+6nszQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org: 

> From: [email protected] (mikespub)
> If you have an Apache webserver with mod_rewrite enabled, here's how
> you can get rid of the /index.php/ part in short URLs :
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> 1) in your xaraya home directory, use a .htaccess file with the
> following mod_rewrite directives :
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> # turn mod_rewrite on for this directory
> RewriteEngine on
> # don't rewrite anything that starts with index.php
> RewriteRule ^index\.php - [L]
> # don't rewrite anything that ends with .jpg, .gif, .png, .css, .js
> (customize)
> RewriteRule \.(jpg|gif|png|css|js)$ - [L]
> # rewrite everything else
> RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php/$1 [L]
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> You can achieve the same thing with RewriteCond - I'm not
> sure if it makes any difference, really.

Well, it is easier if you have other existing material on the site and 
don't want it rewritten. I use:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.+) index.php/$1 [L]

This checks to see if the requested url is a file or directory that already 
exists; if it doesn't then the url is rewritten and sent to xaraya for 
handling.

A side effect of this, however, is that any broken links coming in or any 
broken images will be handled by xaraya. (Comment #3 on bug 1155 takes a 
look at the issue http://bugs.xaraya.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155#c3).