timjpriebe — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:38:29 +0000

Nice link. Thanks, theramen!

I also found this page, which gives more info on transparently rewriting URLs:

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

theramen — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:44:30 +0000

This is a great article all about .htaccess file.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Busy — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:08:20 +0000

I recently lost all my bookmarks but there is a site with the name htaccess or similar, was a while ago but believe that is good and also has links. Like most topics, not any one site lists everything. Also have to remember not all work on all servers with a little tweaking.

timjpriebe — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:54:24 +0000

Does anyone know of a good guide to all the different things you can do with .htaccess? Clean URLs, redirecting, error pages, interpreting html files as php, etc? I'm looking to do a bit more research into them and would love it if I could find one site with all the info I need.

Greg K — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:36:43 +0000

yes, that is easy, we do that for affiliate links, do domain.com/textid and then let that redirect to the numeric one, so people could use more memorable urls.

We just set up the 404 page to check against a database (after a few checks to eliminate obvious not used ones). If it matched, it did a redirect to the other site after sending out the right headers. Otherwise it send the 404 headers and gave the error page.

-Greg

Austers — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:00:50 +0000

Thanks for the help but after a good few hours researching regular expressions I managed to figure out what to do. I needed it to make this: http://www.zurl.net

spiralfive — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:02:06 +0000

Actually, it appears (another theory) you would want to block Hot-Linking and the execution of the files within the folder you are talking about. If you'd provide us with the exact scenario of what you're trying to do, it'd help.

Greg K — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:32:42 +0000

From the way I have ready your post, I agree the 404 redirect would be what you want.

Now if you still want to have a different "404 error" for files off of your main site, you could do some checking to see what the really requested.

-Greg

spiralfive — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:28:59 +0000

Why not use a 404 error page that redirects to the file you're talking about (if i'm correct on what you're trying to do)?

EGS — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 04:32:48 +0000

Can you tell us exactly what you want it to do? (IE: Make a .php?asd987a&hdasfu file into blah-blah.html file)