http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 18 May 2008 17:35:14 GMT DZone Snippets: rewritemap code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4699 This code will read a text file using Apache then upon a user request, look for a url containing /l/ eg. http://mysite.com/l/digg and rewrite the URL in full eg. http://mysite.com/gwd/feed/digg.html . The example file is shown here for completeness. <br /> <br />RewriteMap uses a text file as a convenient alternative for the administrator when declaring many rewrite rules. Code based on the article from ONLamp.com - A Day in the Life of #Apache http://urltea.com/1vwb <br /> <br /> <br /><code> <br /><file name="links.txt" location="/var/www/localhost/"> <br />scotsman /gwd/feed/scotsman.html <br />digg /gwd/feed/digg.html <br /></file> <br /> <br /><IfModule mod_rewrite.c> <br />RewriteEngine on <br />RewriteMap links txt:/var/www/localhost/links.txt <br />RewriteRule ^/l/(.*) ${links:$1|http://mysite.com/} [R] <br /></IfModule> <br /> <br /></code> <br /> <br />Note: The [R] at the end of RewriteRule means redirect, to have a clean url simply remove that switch. <br /> <br />*update 15-Feb-08 * <br />Restart Apache rather reloading the module when switching redirection on or off for a RewriteRule. The Apache version 2.2.6 (Unix) didn't pick up my settings correctly when I tried /etc/init.d/apache2 reload, instead I needed to use /etc/init.d/apache2 restart. Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:51:14 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4699 jrobertson (James Robertson)