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Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #21896]

Mon, 27 December 2004 15:15

naudefj

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Hi,

The PATH_INFO feature is great, but I would like to shorten the URL even further using mod_rewrite. However, string "/index.php" is hard coded into the source and will always resurface in hyperlinks. Would it be possible to remove this from the source code and make it a variable (GLOBALS.php)?

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Frank

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #21901 is a reply to message #21896]

Mon, 27 December 2004 21:20

Ilia

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It is not hardcoded into the source, it is specified inside the templates. If you can safely work without index.php, simply run something like this:

perl -p -i -e 's/index\.php//' *.tmpl

inside the template directory.

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #21913 is a reply to message #21901]

Tue, 28 December 2004 16:19

naudefj

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Do you mean remove {ROOT} from the FUDForumData/thm/path_info/tmpl/*.tmpl files?

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Frank

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #21915 is a reply to message #21913]

Tue, 28 December 2004 16:38

Ilia

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yes, or modify compiler.inc not to put anything for ROOT.

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #21922 is a reply to message #21915]

Tue, 28 December 2004 20:37

Anonymous

It works like a dream. Here is my .htaccess directives:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*) index.php/$1 [L]

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Best regards.

Frank

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #21990 is a reply to message #21922]

Thu, 06 January 2005 22:29

srchild

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Anonymous wrote on Tue, 28 December 2004 20:37

It works like a dream.

I was interested to try this.

I tried to modify compiler.inc not to put anything for ROOT, by changing:

$cmpl['ROOT'] = 'index.php';

to

$cmpl['ROOT'] = '';

but then my URL's lost not only index.php but also the directory name 'forum'

Trial and error showed that this works:

$cmpl['ROOT'] = '.';

Simon Child

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #21993 is a reply to message #21896]

Fri, 07 January 2005 05:29

naudefj

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Glad it is working for you as well. Maybe we should make this a sticky in the How-To forum Razz

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #22002 is a reply to message #21993]

Fri, 07 January 2005 19:41

naudefj

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One of my users just reported that paging through message pages doesn't work (Pages: [1 2 3 ...] at the bottom). It always shows the first page with latest messages.

The generated URL is http://mysite.com/forum/sf/thread/59/1/&start=40/0/
Removing the "&start=" part of the URL solves the problem.

Do you have the same problem on your forum? If not, I might have a setup problem.

Best regards.

Frank

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #22005 is a reply to message #22002]

Sat, 08 January 2005 00:24

srchild

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naudefj wrote on Fri, 07 January 2005 19:41

Works alright for me. The URL is:

http://www.mysite.org/forum/sf/thread/20/1/40/682/

Simon Child

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #22024 is a reply to message #22005]

Sun, 09 January 2005 19:48

naudefj

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I somehow cannot reproduce the problem anymore. Anyway, thank you for checking.

Best regards.

Frank

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Re: Shorten URLs with MOD_REWRITE [message #28819 is a reply to message #22024]

Fri, 11 November 2005 19:07

hossam

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Works like a charm here too with some modifications..

in /include/compilers.inc $cmpl['ROOT'] = 's';

my mod_rewrite rules

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

my Fudforum installation dir is /
added AcceptPathInfo On in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Now, forums looks "more" profissional as forum.com/s/t/3268/30e0a8b938d79cd5a1799ca5b455de6c/

Time to get rid of the session id part and to have articles name in URL for SEO purposes.

Cheers,
Hossam

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