Comments on: I Like mod_rewrite http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/02/05/i_like_mod_rewrite.html Technology, Blogging, Food, Travel, Poker and More Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:45:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Autocreate mod_rewrite Mapping File | John's Jottings http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/02/05/i_like_mod_rewrite.html/comment-page-1#comment-2002 Autocreate mod_rewrite Mapping File | John's Jottings Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:47:32 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=67#comment-2002 [...] response to my article I Like mod_rewrite, Jonathon Delacour asks and I respond: John, does this mean I’d have to write over 800 rules [...] [...] response to my article I Like mod_rewrite, Jonathon Delacour asks and I respond: John, does this mean I’d have to write over 800 rules [...]

]]> By: john http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/02/05/i_like_mod_rewrite.html/comment-page-1#comment-165 john Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:46:56 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=67#comment-165 You will have 800 rules regardless of if you put in the httpd.conf or the mapping file. Because this uses regex (regular expressions) it can be very useful for making massive simple changes like moving all files from one folder to another, but impossible to benefit from regex when you need to make the sort of mapping changes you will need to make. I think it boils down to how clean you want your directories. It's not like you would have to do this all at once - you could leave the old stuff there and slowly add the mappings over time until you had them all. But I'm not sure if clean directories are worth that... :-) You will have 800 rules regardless of if you put in the httpd.conf or the mapping file. Because this uses regex (regular expressions) it can be very useful for making massive simple changes like moving all files from one folder to another, but impossible to benefit from regex when you need to make the sort of mapping changes you will need to make.

I think it boils down to how clean you want your directories. It’s not like you would have to do this all at once – you could leave the old stuff there and slowly add the mappings over time until you had them all. But I’m not sure if clean directories are worth that… :-)

]]> By: Jonathon Delacour http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/02/05/i_like_mod_rewrite.html/comment-page-1#comment-164 Jonathon Delacour Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:42:27 +0000 http://www.johnsjottings.com/wp/?p=67#comment-164 John, does this mean I'd have to write over 800 rules in order to redirect all my current individual archive files? Or would the mapping file save me all that work? John, does this mean I’d have to write over 800 rules in order to redirect all my current individual archive files? Or would the mapping file save me all that work?

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