mod_rewrite

Posted in Post-It Notes at 6:25 pm by Chris

I am slowly starting to get the grasp of this VERY handy url re-writing utility. It took a cheat-sheet found on www.ilovejackdaniels.com and this article: URL Rewriting | redirecting URLs with Apache’s mod_rewrite || HTMLSource ]

I would love to say that was all it took, but I did require 2 lbs of coffee, 1 bottle of tylenol and a whole bushel of patience. :D For the most part, however, I now get it, and was able to set up the URL re-writing schema that I wanted to implement earlier (see Updated URLs post). It was more a matter of necessity, to solve the problem with some search engines having broken links to my site.

At the moment, I am still looking into the issue of the old post ID links needing to be resolved from an even older permalink setup on my site, but for now that will take a back seat to other projects. (The post ID setup hasn’t been used in quite a while, so I expect that a lot of the links referencing them will have already started expiring.)

Anyhow, that’s all for the moment.