Mod_rewrite Question

ckahn

Hi,

I'm trying to write a rule that finds albums in the root directory but uses an album path. So, lets say I have an album called 'test-album' which is blank, and another album called 'image-album-1' with images in it. I want to be able to type zenphoto/test-album/image-album-1/ and go to zenphoto/image-album-1

shouldn't the re-write look like this:

RewriteRule ^(test-album)/?(.*?)/?$ index.php?album=$2 [QSA]

Thanks!

sbillard

Your best bet for this is the apache forums, for instance http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/

ckahn

After digging around on these forums some more, I guess I'm getting the impression that Zenphoto doesn't really use the get params, and instead looks at the url instead. In other words, is it even possible to send zenphoto to any album just through the mod_rewrite?

sbillard

Well, of course it looks at the get param. Just look at the code. That is what normally happens with a site setup for mod_rewrite. Of coures, what you wish to do is not ordinary for Zenphoto so it's mod_rewrite rules do not do it.

You will have to study how to make rewrite rules and make your own. This is not a forum on mod_rewrite rules. I did give you a link to one, there are others.

ckahn

I have checked that link out, and see nothing wrong with the way I'm doing the mod_rewrite, which was why I was asking about the feasibility of doing this at all. If I print out the $_SERVER vars from the album page I see:

REDIRECT_URL /zenphoto/index.php
REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING album=sub-album-2

Which is exactly what I want. Why then is it not going to the album? The only thing I can think of is that it's not really looking at the album param, and instead looking at the url.

Can anyone confirm this?

sbillard

please review `rewrite_get_album_image()` with respect to the data you have collected.

sbillard

BTW, you might wish to explain why in the world you want to do this. Quite possibly there will be a better solution. Taken at face value your proposal seems pretty pointless.

ckahn

Ah, the rewrite_get_album_image() is pretty much what I thought was going on, but I didn't know where to find it.

I have gotten it to work now by adding another param into my mod_rewrite and ignoring the function that checks the url in rewrite_get_album_image().

As far as why I'm doing this, it's because the site I'm working on needs duplicate projects in multiple categories (which I'm doing with tags) but also has a highlighted navigation which needs to reflect where the user is. So if a project exists in the root and that's where it's getting re-directed then that doesn't work since it'll lose its context. So now, the mod_rewrite works like this:

RewriteRule ^(cat1|cat2|etc.)/+?([A-Za-z0-9_\-]+){1,}/?$ index.php?album=projects/$2&category=$1&project=1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(cat1|cat2|etc.)/?$ index.php?album=categories/$1&category=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ index.php?album=$1 [L,QSA]

So I can just put all my categories into an album called categories, and all the projects into a projects album, and do the rest with tags.