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carla_tf

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Since: Jun 11, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:33 pm
Post subject: Mod Rewrite question - newbie
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Hi, I'm Carla, I'm a mod rewrite totally newbie-
I'm trying to make search pages to look as html pages (mainly for
search engines).
I want that when I user click on http://sub.dom.com/fish.html apache
serves http://dom.com/cgi/s.cgi?query=fish but I don't want to display
the second address.
To do that I added to httpd.conf:

<Directory "/var/www/dom.com/sub">
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ http://dom.com/cgi/search.cgi\?query=$1
</Directory>

Now, the server delivers the page but it shows the real address
(dot.com/blablabla). What I have to add to avoid Apache to show the
real address?.
Cordially,
Carla


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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:57 pm
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Carla wrote:

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 > I want that when I user click on <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://sub.dom.com/fish.html" target="_blank">http://sub.dom.com/fish.html</a> apache
 > serves <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://dom.com/cgi/s.cgi?query=fish" target="_blank">http://dom.com/cgi/s.cgi?query=fish</a> but I don't want to display
 > the second address.

 > To do that I added to httpd.conf:

 > RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://dom.com/cgi/search.cgi" target="_blank">http://dom.com/cgi/search.cgi</a>\?query=$1

 > Now, the server delivers the page but it shows the real address
 > (dot.com/blablabla). What I have to add to avoid Apache to show the
 > real address?

Use Server Side Includes (SSI) instead. You may include almost
any file, including cgi applications, in a static html page using
SSI. There is a slight disadvantage. You use slightly more system
resources and your page "might" load a little slower depending on
how much content data is delivered to your static page. There are
some security concerns which are easy to address.

Hiding URL addresses is an age old problem which has never
been resolved. There are many techniques to hide an address
but with little effort, an address can be found.

This is not true with Server Side Includes. There is no hint
of remote inclusion, unless there is a script error, even
then your remote address is not disclosed.


<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.apacheweek.com/features/ssi" target="_blank">http://www.apacheweek.com/features/ssi</a>

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://cjhosting.com/members/faqssi.html" target="_blank">http://cjhosting.com/members/faqssi.html</a>

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/includes.html" target="_blank">http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/includes.html</a>


Very easy to learn how to use includes, very easy to write
include code, which is really simple html markup. Really nice
effects can be had with a very wide range of options, which
include search results based on your key term, "fish."


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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:39 pm
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"Carla" <carla_tf.TakeThisOut@ciudad.com.ar> schreef in bericht
news:6b24edfc.0406111533.3b3d29ca@posting.google.com...
 > Hi, I'm Carla, I'm a mod rewrite totally newbie-
 > I'm trying to make search pages to look as html pages (mainly for
 > search engines).
 > I want that when a user clicks on <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://sub.dom.com/fish.html" target="_blank">http://sub.dom.com/fish.html</a> apache
 > serves <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://dom.com/cgi/s.cgi?query=fish" target="_blank">http://dom.com/cgi/s.cgi?query=fish</a> but I don't want to display
 > the second address.
 > To do that I added to httpd.conf:
 > <Directory "/var/www/dom.com/sub">
 > RewriteEngine on
 > Options +FollowSymlinks
 > RewriteBase /
 > RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://dom.com/cgi/search.cgi" target="_blank">http://dom.com/cgi/search.cgi</a>\?query=$1
 > </Directory>
 >
 > Now, the server delivers the page but it shows the real address
 > (dot.com/blablabla). What I have to add to avoid Apache to show the
 > real address?.
Do you really mean to rewrite to another domain or (virtual) server??
That will cause Apache to send a redirect and the browser will [have to]
request from that new location.
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule</a>

You just have to avoid sending a redirect to the browser -but you cann't if
you have to redirect cross-domain.- so change your rule to
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /cgi/search.cgi\?query=$1

If your only reason for cross-domain rewrites is accessing the cgi-folder at
dom.com, and dom.com and sub.dom.com are set up as <virtualhost...>s,
consider moving your rewrite inside the <virtualhost ...> for sub.dom.com
and add a scriptalias too, alike:
NameVirtualHost *
<virtualhost *>
NameVirtualHost sub.dom.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/dom.com/sub
ScriptAlias /cgi/ /var/www/dom.com/cgi
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /cgi/search.cgi\?query=$1 [PT]
</virtualhost >

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 6:44 pm
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"HansH" <hans.DeleteThis@niet.op.het.net> wrote in message news:<caeq18$mom$1@news.cistron.nl>...
 > You just have to avoid sending a redirect to the browser -but you cann't if
 > you have to redirect cross-domain.- so change your rule to
 > RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /cgi/search.cgi\?query=$1
 >
 > If your only reason for cross-domain rewrites is accessing the cgi-folder at
 > dom.com, and dom.com and sub.dom.com are set up as <virtualhost...>s,
 > consider moving your rewrite inside the <virtualhost ...> for sub.dom.com
 > and add a scriptalias too, alike:
 > NameVirtualHost *
 > <virtualhost *>
 > NameVirtualHost sub.dom.com
 > DocumentRoot /var/www/dom.com/sub
 > ScriptAlias /cgi/ /var/www/dom.com/cgi
 > RewriteEngine on
 > RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ /cgi/search.cgi\?query=$1 [PT]
 > </virtualhost >
 >
 > HansH
thanks HansH, it worked nice. this is what I wanted to do!. I'm using
Apache 1.3 and if I put the rewrite commands inside <virtualhost> it
gives me an error and it won't restart the server, that's why I put
them inside <Directory><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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