Re: Feature Request: Flexible Rewrite Rules

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:37:36PM +0200, Steffen Weber wrote:
> Am Freitag, 17. September 2004 22:26 schrieb Jan Kneschke:
> > Use 1.3.0 and url.rewrite-final.
> 
> I?m trying to achieve the following:
> - Let all requests to images, stylesheets, javascript an text files go through
> - Let all requests to the directories "forum" and "stuff" go through
> - Rewrite all other requests to /index.php
> 
> Well, I?ve not been successful. I?ve created the following rewrite rules:
> 
> url.rewrite-final = ( "^.*\.(jpg|gif|css|js|txt})$" )
> url.rewrite-final = ( "^forum.*" => "/forum/" )
> url.rewrite-final = ( "^stuff.*" => "/stuff/" )
> url.rewrite-final = ( "^.*$" => "/index.php" )
> 
> If I then request "/somedir/" I get a 404 error, although it should have been 
> rewritten to index.php by the last rule, which should match everything that 
> has not been matched before?!
> 
> If I change the last line to
> 
> url.rewrite       = ( "^.*$" => "/index.php" )
> 
> this redirect rule seems to become recursive as my browser never gets a 
> response and I have to "kill -kill <lighttpd pid>" in order to stop the 
> server.
> 
> If I change the last line to
> 
> url.rewrite       = ( "^.*/$" => "/index.php" )
> 
> in order to only match requests with a slash in the end requests to 
> "/somedir/" are correctly rewritten to index.php. But then strangely requests 
> to "/forum/" and "/stuff/" are also rewritten to index.php, although I think 
> they should not be as I?m using rewrite-final to exclude requests to 
> "/forum/" from any further redirect rules.
> 
> Could someone please enlighten me?
> 
> The only possible explanation which comes to my mind is that after having 
> passed the rewrite-chain the rewritten URL is again passed through the 
> rewrite chain. If this is the case, how can I disable this behaviour?

It should work exactly that way. I'll check why it doesn't.
 
> Steffen
> 
    Jan
  
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