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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Glenn Gillis <gl...@elaw.org> on 2010/04/19 23:44:58 UTC
[users@httpd] Rewrite rule rewriting unexpectedly
Would any rewriting gurus out there care to speculate why the rewrite rule:
"RewriteRule /blog http://spotlight.wordpress.com/"
would cause the image URL:
"<img src="/system/files/images_content/blogspot_final_framed_0.jpg"
alt="what we do" width="500" height="125" />"
to redirect to the spotlight.wordpress.com webpage?
Running Apache 2.2.9 on FreeBSD 6.x.
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Thanks!
Glenn Gillis
Information Technology Manager
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
U.S. Office
http://www.elaw.org
Re: [users@httpd] Rewrite rule rewriting unexpectedly
Posted by Glenn Gillis <gl...@elaw.org>.
Eric Covener wrote, On 4/19/2010 2:59 PM:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Glenn Gillis <gl...@elaw.org> wrote:
>> Would any rewriting gurus out there care to speculate why the rewrite rule:
>>
>> "RewriteRule /blog http://spotlight.wordpress.com/"
>>
>> would cause the image URL:
>>
>> "<img src="/system/files/images_content/blogspot_final_framed_0.jpg"
>> alt="what we do" width="500" height="125" />"
>>
>> to redirect to the spotlight.wordpress.com webpage?
>>
>> Running Apache 2.2.9 on FreeBSD 6.x.
>
> If you want to match exactly "/blog" and not that string inside the
> URL, you need to anchor it with e.g. ^/blog$
Thanks, that works!
I believe I had tried it with just ^/blog and just /blog$ but not with ^/blog$.
--
Glenn
Re: [users@httpd] Rewrite rule rewriting unexpectedly
Posted by Jonathan Zuckerman <j....@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Eric Covener <co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Glenn Gillis <gl...@elaw.org> wrote:
> > Would any rewriting gurus out there care to speculate why the rewrite
> rule:
> >
> > "RewriteRule /blog http://spotlight.wordpress.com/"
> >
> > would cause the image URL:
> >
> > "<img src="/system/files/images_content/blogspot_final_framed_0.jpg"
> > alt="what we do" width="500" height="125" />"
> >
> > to redirect to the spotlight.wordpress.com webpage?
> >
> > Running Apache 2.2.9 on FreeBSD 6.x.
>
> If you want to match exactly "/blog" and not that string inside the
> URL, you need to anchor it with e.g. ^/blog$
>
> --
> Eric Covener
> covener@gmail.com
>
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because! regular expressions are by definition greedy, which means they
will match the largest possible string of characters. If you don't give it
boundaries like the start and end string delimiters it just sucks up
everything that it can.
Re: [users@httpd] Rewrite rule rewriting unexpectedly
Posted by Eric Covener <co...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Glenn Gillis <gl...@elaw.org> wrote:
> Would any rewriting gurus out there care to speculate why the rewrite rule:
>
> "RewriteRule /blog http://spotlight.wordpress.com/"
>
> would cause the image URL:
>
> "<img src="/system/files/images_content/blogspot_final_framed_0.jpg"
> alt="what we do" width="500" height="125" />"
>
> to redirect to the spotlight.wordpress.com webpage?
>
> Running Apache 2.2.9 on FreeBSD 6.x.
If you want to match exactly "/blog" and not that string inside the
URL, you need to anchor it with e.g. ^/blog$
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Eric Covener
covener@gmail.com
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