[users@httpd] Help with mod_rewrite

[Frank Arensmeier <fr...@nikehydraulics.se>]

Hello.
I apologize if this has been asked before. Based on the requested  
url, I am trying to map those urls to my file system. I have come up  
with the following Rewrite rule (in my htaccess file)so far:

RewriteRule ^(se|en|us)/(.+) /$2 [E=LANG_CODE:$1]

As you can see, my site is been translated into english, american  
english and swedish. Based on the env variable ['REDIRECT_LANG_CODE],  
I include either English, Swedish or whatever language it might be in  
the html output. A request for e.g.:

http://myserver.com/en/about/history.php will be remapped to the file  
"histrory.php" in the folder "about". This is actually working as I  
thought I would be. The problem is when a user requests a URL like:

http://myserver.com/en/about

Apparently, Apache does an internal redirect because it is looking  
for the index.php file (which exists) in the folder "about". The  
thing I do not understand is why the user is being redirected to  
http://myserver.com/about??? When doing so, the environmental  
variable LANG_CODE is lost. Why? How can I map those requests to my  
index file without redirecting the user?

Am I making sense?

//frank

Re: [users@httpd] Help with mod_rewrite

[Bob <bo...@googlemail.com>]

Frank Arensmeier wrote:
> The problem is when a user requests a URL like:
> 
> http://myserver.com/en/about
> 
> Apparently, Apache does an internal redirect because it is looking for 
> the index.php file (which exists) in the folder "about". The thing I do 
> not understand is why the user is being redirected to 
> http://myserver.com/about???

I think there's an external redirect to /about/ (notice the trailing 
slash). This is normal procedure done by mod_dir. Use a RewriteRule, 
which fixes the trailing slash problem.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule !\.[a-z]{2,4}$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(se|en|us)/(.+) /$2 [E=LANG_CODE:$1]

-- 
Bob

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