[svlug] gotten myself in trouble with permalinks,

[Kellner, Peter]

Someone earlier (I can't find the message) said DreamHosts supports
rewrites.  It like from there response to me this morning they don not.
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I am not certain what is wrong with your .htaccess file. We do allow
mod_rewrite in .htaccess files. I tried adding these lines "just in
case"
and it didn't do anything:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Unfortunately we cannot troubleshoot directly problems with custom
rewrite rules, as they appear to be working overall.


Thanks!
Kelly

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	  DreamHost Support Team

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It's not going to work.  You are running into basic HTTP specs.  The
?p24
or ?p=24 part is the QUERY_STRING part of a GET.  Specifically, it is
not consider a part of the URI.  The URI is
http://test.cyclohamster.com/ and the QUERY is ?p24.

Soooo... to make a long story short.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=24
RewriteRule ^.*$ /bearflag.jpg [R]

Those two lines is the basic rewrite recipe.  You will need to add salt,

pepper and water to taste.

If you want a generic "p=SomeNumber", then it is something like this.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=\d+
RewriteRule ^.*$ /bearflag.jpg [R]

The only oddity I've noticed is that the recipe works fine _IN_ the
server httpd.conf, but does not work for me in .htaccess.  I played with
it for a bit, but don't feel like spending a lot of time on making
.htaccess work. 
I put in a lot of time taking them out of my site... so kinda waste of
effort to make them work again!

Cheers,
Tin Le
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http://tin.le.org
Tin Le - tin at le.org
Firewall and Security Consulting


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