Filename Extensions/mod_rewrite help?

[rkstar]

Hopefully someone here will know how this is done... I just spent hours researching with no luck. All the web servers in the past i've used didn't require file extensions unless there were multiple files of the same name. example:
site.com/filename

it first checks to see if filename is a folder, then it tries for filename.cgi, .pl, .html, .jpg, .gif, etc and pretty much filename.* before returning a 404. the best jaguarpc support could tell me is to try to do something with mod_rewrite to make it work on this site. But i'm having no luck at all at making this work. Does anyone know how all the other web servers make that work? It even works on my home computer web server, but i couldn't find anything in httpd.conf to explain it.

thanks for any help!

-dan

[Vin DSL]

Um... maybe it's just me, but I don't understand the question. Could you state it a different way?

[rkstar]

ok, in my example, if i put a file named filename.html in the top level of site.com. currently i need the url to be site.com/filename.html to access it, but all other servers i've worked with would accept site.com/filename to access it. Filename extensions aren't required (unless there's a folder, etc with the same name). Does that make sense now?

[Vin DSL]

Yes, I understand now. Hrm... well, I just tested it on my site, and you are correct. If I type "http://www.lenon.com/index" in the browser, it looks for a folder called "index" and it 404's. Interesting! I don't know why you would want to do this, but to each his own.

I don't know the answer to this riddle, but I'm sure jason will be by in a few minutes, and he'll figure it out for you. He's the resident Google-meister.

Good luck!

[rkstar]

I wouldn't use it for index files, but for other files i would if for no other reasons than shorter file names... which i type a hundred times a day (too many to bookmark them all so i just type them) and to type bumrock.com/links is faster than bumrock.com/links.html . The main reason I need it to work is for URL continuity when moving from my old site. Thanks for any help!

[rkstar]

It was figured out! Someone in a different message board suggested:

You want to turn on the MultiViews option.

In your root web folder, you can add a file called .htaccess and put the following on one line:

Options +MultiViews

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and that did it!

-dan

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by rkstar
In your root web folder, you can add a file called .htaccess and put the following on one line:

Options +MultiViews

and that did it!

.htaccess is a wonderful thing, isn't it? .htaccess is a webmaster's best friend. Mine was 17Kb the last time I looked...

[Connie]

rkstar,

Thanks for the mod rewite. You may know this but if you have
two files with different extensions it will only work with one of
them.

In my test case home.htm and home.php I could only access the
home.php page without the file extension.

[rkstar]

yep... i knew about that. can't quite remember the order of things it checks in, i know first it checks for a folder, then scripts, then html/txt, then graphics. haven't really checked beyond that, but its really not an issue to me :-)
-dan

[Connie]

Checks a .php before .htm. My interest is the same as yours so it works great
for what I wanted if for. Thanks again for taking the time to find this.

[Galen]

I've always seen it check for html before php. I have an intro redirect page in one of my forums. It's index.html that redirects instantly to index.php. All you have to do is type site.com/forum/ and it goes to index.html first (otherwise, there'd be no point to having one in there, lol).

[rkstar]

i think what you're talking about galen is the DirectoryIndex directive, not the mutliviews. if you add the line

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

to your .htaccess file, it will search for the php before the html. It's solely the order of those (or if they don't exist, the order they're in in the jaguarpc's httpd.conf file) that decide the search order of index files.

And to think.. two days ago I had no idea how to use a .htaccess file! It's been a long 2 days. So yeah, if you want it to go to php first, just add that line to your .htaccess. Or actually... if you delete the index.html file, then it'll just skip that.

-dan

[Galen]

Ah, ok, I gotcha. I was having dumb moment there

[jason]

Cool. I'm glad you were able to figure it out. .htaccess files are pretty powerful things. There's tons of configuration changes that you can make with them. I know how to do quite a bit with them myself, but I'm always discovering new things, and I've been doing this stuff for years.

--Jason