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Anonymous, 2008-03-23 16:11
adding {n,m} wildcard


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URL Rewrites ============

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Module: mod_rewrite
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Description ===========

internal redirects, url rewrite

Options =======

url.rewrite-once
rewrites a set of URLs internally in the webserver BEFORE they are handled.

e.g. ::
url.rewrite-once = ( "<regex>" => "<relative-uri>" )

url.rewrite-repeat
rewrites a set of URLs internally in the webserver BEFORE they are handled

e.g. ::
url.rewrite-repeat = ( "<regex>" => "<relative-uri>" )

The difference between these options is that, while url.rewrite-repeat allows for applying multiple (seperately defined) rewrite rules in a row, url.rewrite-once will cause further rewrite rules to be skipped if the expression was matched. As such, url.rewrite-once behaves like Apaches' RewriteRule ... [L]: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule

The options ``url.rewrite`` and ``url.rewrite-final`` were mapped to ``url.rewrite-once``
in 1.3.16.

NOTE: url rewriting does not work within a $HTTP["url"] conditional. [http://forum.lighttpd.net/topic/1092#3028]

Examples ========

The regex is matching the full REQUEST_URI which is supplied by the user including
query-string.::

url.rewrite-once = ( "^/id/([0-9]+)$" => "/index.php?id=$1",
"^/link/([a-zA-Z]+)" => "/index.php?link=$1" )
  1. the following example, is, however just simulating vhost by rewrite
  2. * you can never change document-root by mod_rewrite
  3. use mod_*host instead to make real mass-vhost
  1. request: http://any.domain.com/url/
  2. before rewrite: REQUEST_URI="/www/htdocs/url/"
  3. and DOCUMENT_ROOT="/www/htdocs/" %0="any.domain.com" $1="url/"
  4. after rewrite: REQUEST_URI="/www/htdocs/any.domain.com/url/"
  5. still, you have DOCUMENT_ROOT=/www/htdocs/
server.document-root = "/www/htdocs/" 
$HTTP["host"] =~ "^.*\.([^.]+\.com)$" {
url.rewrite-once = ( "^/(.*)" => "/%0/$1" )
}
  1. please note, that we have two regular expressions: the one which
  2. $HTTP["host"] is been compared with, and the one of the rewrite rule.
  3. the numbered subexpressions available to build the relative uri are
  4. being prefixed by '%' for subexpressions of the first regular expression
  5. match and by '$' for subexpressions of the second one.
  6. in the case, when the rewrite rule is not included in a conditional
  7. block, only the '$' prefixed variables are available.
  8. subexpression 0 is the whole matching expression.

With mod_redirect
-----------------

Rewrite rules always execute before redirect rules. This is true regardless of the order of module loading or the order of rules in the configuration (lighttpd v1.4.13). However, mod_rewrite provides a mechanism to pass URLs through unmangled: specify "$0" as the rule target.
e.g. ::
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/foo" => "$0",
"^/(.*)" => "/handler/$1"
)
url.redirect = (
"^/foo" => "http://foo.bar/"
)

Workaround for "File name too long" on Windows
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While running Lighttpd on Windows you may get ``500 Internal Server Error`` if computed filename is longer than 255 symbols.
In error log it will be ``(response.c.537) file not found ... or so: File name too long /very_looooong_path ->``.
As workaround you can use ``mod_rewrite`` to avoid this error.

::
server.modules += ("mod_rewrite")
url.rewrite-once = ( ".{250,}" => "/toolong.php" )

If error handler is PHP, ``$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']`` will contain full URI.

Regular Expressions
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  • Patterns ("wildcards") are matched against a string
  • Special characters:
    • . (full stop) - match any character
    • \* (asterisk) - match zero or more of the previous symbol
    • \+ (plus) - match one or more of the previous symbol
    • ? (question) - match zero or one of the previous symbol
    • \\? (backslash-something) - match special characters
    • ^ (caret) - match the start of a string
    • $ (dollar) - match the end of a string
    • [set] - match any one of the symbols inside the square braces.
    • (pattern) - grouping, remember what the pattern matched as a special variable
    • {n,m} - from n to m times matching the previous character (m could be ommited to mean >=n times)
  • Normal alphanumeric characters are treated as normal

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Updated by Anonymous about 16 years ago · 30 revisions