[clue] Web Site

Tue May 17 16:59:41 MDT 2011

I was fortunate enough to be exposed to mod_rewrite early on in my administration career. My last company had a gigantic (25M+ accounts) web host that was running on IIS (::Shudder::) and we were migrating it to the LAMP stack (Where it should be). 

After looking at how IIS handles rewriting URLs (Ie: it doesn't, unless you write an ISAPI filter, in .net or some other M$ BS language). mod_rewrite was a treat.

I was able to recreate the server side hosting of it with about 10 lines of mod_rewrite code. It was faster, easier to maintain, cheaper, etc. All the normal things that come with linux/LAMP :)

I do recall staring at the mod_rewrite guide in the beginning and going "WTF?!?!". RewriteLog helps a lot too, just remember to set RewriteLogLevel as well.

Brandon Allhands
IT Manager
brandon at toolking.com

On May 17, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Will wrote:

> Ha, I always due just the opposite.  I show people mod_alias because I figure mod_rewrite will send them home cursing Apache for being impossible to configure :-).
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Brandon Allhands <brandon at toolking.com> wrote:
> Also, if you are not using the original URI info, you can leave out the (.*) and instead have / (Or even .*, which would be literally everything). The parenthesis are only if you plan on using what's within them later (Via $1). I wasn't sure if there was any sort of mapping of old URLs to their new version.
> 
> I normally give the Rewrite example, as it gets people looking into mod_rewrite, which is crazy powerful cool. It also allows a really granular level of rewrite control. We have a couple of rewrite rules on our site that call external scripts to handle really old URLs from when we did our site conversion last year. It's just a really good tool to know, if you do any sort of apache server administration.
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> 
> Brandon Allhands
> IT Manager
> brandon at toolking.com
> 
> On May 17, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Will wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't you want to leave out the $1 not the (.*)?  You still want everyone redirected you just don't want to append the path and file that was requested to the new URL.
>> 
>> Also if you do not want to re-write the URLs while keeping the rest of the URL intact a simple redirect will suffice and be much simpler for others to understand.
>> RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*) http://www-dev.cluedenver.org/
>> 
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Brandon Allhands <brandon at toolking.com> wrote:
>> in .htaccess:
>> 
>> RewriteEngine on
>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.cluedenver.org
>> RewriteRule /(.*) http://www-dev.cluedenver.org/$1 [R=301]
>> 
>> 
>> 301 is temp, 302 is permanent. You can omit the /(.*) if the new URLs don't match up. (The config above will take anything after the initial / and add it to the new, redirected request.
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>> 
>> Brandon Allhands
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>> brandon at toolking.com
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>> On May 17, 2011, at 4:17 PM, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
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>>> Sounds like a good idea.  I'll find out how to do this.
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Brandon Allhands" <brandon at toolking.com>
>>> To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:51:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [clue] Web Site
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>>> I can confirm the same behavior here. There is enough time to actually read information and click before the redirect happens.
>>> 
>>> Can you guys throw a .htaccess to do this at the apache layer? Would reduce load on the server (Since it wouldn't have to draw the old page).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Brandon Allhands
>>> IT Manager
>>> brandon at toolking.com
>>> 1.800.696.TOOL
>>> ToolKing.com
>>> 11111 West Sixth Ave Unit D
>>> Lakewood, CO 80215
>>> 303.500.0427 - Direct
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 17, 2011, at 3:48 PM, YES NOPE9 wrote:
>>> 
>>> The website www.cluedenver.org is supposed to redirect instantly to http://www-dev.cluedenver.org/ which is the new CLUE website.  The redirect is very sloooow and so is the new website.  The DRUPAL7 team is looking into what the issue is.  All new information regarding CLUE is being placed only in the new website. ( YIKES .... that is what is supposed to be happening ).
>>> If you wish to help troubleshoot the DRUPAL7 site please contact Dennis Perkins.
>>> 99guspuppet   CZAR of CLUE finances
>>> 
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>>> On May 17, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Will wrote:
>>> 
>>> When I got to www.cluedenver.org I see the old site and after a few seconds I'm redirected to http://www-dev.cluedenver.org/  Is it supposed to work that way? 
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