Redirect File Requests

[schussat]

Hi everybody-

 

In our long thread of mod_rewrite conversations, I have the next question. It seems that making sense of mod_rewrite just doesn't get any easier. The introduction to the module says

``The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.''

 

Anyway, that aside, I've just switched my weblog over to textpattern. As far as I can tell, Textpattern doesn't generate a static XML feed; it's generated by a call to "index.php?rss=1" instead. Can I redirect requests for my old static file to this one, perhaps via mod_rewrite? I'm particularly thinking about anybody who reads my site with an aggregator (hey, I'm being generous to myself thinking there are that many of them, but I figure I ought to cover all the bases!), who won't see the update.

 

So, can I redirect requests to index.xml to index.php?rss=1 instead?

[MikeJ]

Yep. Just take index.xml and rewrite it as whatever you want:

 

>RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule   ^index\.xml$            index.php?rss=1     [L]

 

^index\.xml = the file request to rewrite

index.php?rss=1 = what you are rewriting it to

[L] = last rule... don't rewrite any farther

 

The result is that it will look like index.xml exists as a file.

 

More can be found here:

• URL Rewriting Guide
  
• mod_rewrite Reference Documentation
  

Edited March 7, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ

[TCH-Don]

MikeJ, nice links Thumbs Up

 

 

 

 

 

Moved for better organization of the forums.

[schussat]

Fantastic, MikeJ -- seems to work perfectly. Thanks!