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mod_rewrite, a beginner's guide (with examples)

workingwith.me.uk — mod_rewrite is used for rewriting a URL at the server levelThis article shows you how to redirect all your URLs at a single "mother" page, for reprocessing, and how to stop people from hotlinking to your images.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 31, 2005

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  • BT-Wang, on 10/23/2007, -0/+3awesome, mod_rewrite is a bitch, this deserves a bookmark.
  • Sibertank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@shiftt

    Who cares if he might have got it off google, its a good and informitive article.
  • Magistrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1+digg

    I wish I had this tutorial when I was writing mod_rewrite scripts...
  • dougle, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1In addition to the article some other usefull mod_rewrite stuff:

    For development:
    RewriteLog "/usr/local/var/apache/logs/rewrite.log"
    RewriteLogLevel 9



    The flag [p] forces an internal proxy so that /products/category/name is redirected to /products.php?category=category&product=name (or whatever) but never revealed to the browser.
  • SirThom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome guide.
  • camtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CAPTHOR, Speak for yourself when you say "we".
  • skxy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was my guide, with instructions on how to enable the module for Debian:

    http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/136
  • jms1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.jms1.net/ie.shtml

    or ANY page on the site, if you're using IE...
  • spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's his server. Don't like it? Don't read it.
  • Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can actually get a lot done with mod_alias. The RedirectMatch directory is particularly powerful (All the *Match directives from mod_alias, actually). They're also a LOT simpler. If all you need to do is get people from point A to point B using a regex (regular expression, advanced pattern matching), you don't need mod_rewrite.
  • merlyn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've given up on mod_rewrite. I find writing a mod_perl TransHandler to be much easier, using a real language instead of a limited language.
  • kilps, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0just a quick note on using mod_rewrite - I kept getting access denied messages, but a quick apache restart helped me on my way ...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0not bad, awful colors on site..

    Happy New year from [Geeks Are Sexy]
    http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com
  • Eraser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0The [block/report] button is your friend...
  • shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0BORING

    that page is very old, and one of the first results on Google.
    all this guy did was pluck one of the first respones in Google and posted it here
  • corona1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0OK, this is off topic for this post but this Koolaid dumb ass needs to be buried. He thinks he is proving a point but, is only abusing a community that has no problems (other than him). I think it is time to join together and put the hurt on this idiot.

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