Assistance Please on Rewrite

[cenocre]

I need to change part of a URL from:

This:

http://DOMAIN/cgi.pan~MORE_PARAMETERS

needs to become:

http://DOMAIN/cgi-bin/Panorama.cgi?PanoramaCGI~.cgiDispatch~MORE_PARAMETERS

therefore this:

cgi.pan

gets changed to:

cgi-bin/Panorama.cgi?PanoramaCGI~.cgiDispatch


Is this what I should do?

"cgi.pan" in "Virtual Path Regular Expression"
with no conditions
internal redirection
"cgi-bin/Panorama.cgi?PanoramaCGI~" in Redirect To
append query string checked

Should anything else be checked?

[anybody]

Do you have any experience with mod_rewrite and apache? If you do then I suggest writing your rewrites in a htaccess file and using TRUSTAbyss' AWS:MRT to translate it to abyss. It saves me allot of time and it works rather well.

[pkSML]

[cenocre]

Thanks to both of you. I tried the script with a simple test to no avail.

I decided to try a very simple string with no unusual characters and convert:
http://domain.com/this/index.html
to
http://domain.com/that/index.html


Virtual path: ^/this$
internal redirection to:
/that
append query string (also tried unchecked)

It didn't work. I've tried various combinations of checkboxes and nada - there is no change to the URL at all. Sigh - this should be a no brainer.

Any ideas?

[cenocre]

I tried a variation:

Virtual path: /this
internal redirection to:
/that
append query string

The URL briefly flashed with "//////////" after the .html and then stayed as it originally was with "too many redirects".

So, I tried:

Virtual path: /this/
internal redirection to:
/that/
append query string

and got an error 500

then:

Virtual path: this
internal redirection to:
that
append query string

and got an "too many redirects"

[pkSML]

[cenocre]

Your this/that example worked. Thank you.

I hate this kind of time waster. I've been programming professionally for about 20 years and even did some stuff in CP/M86 and have found this to be the most frustrating. Some supposedly simple mod_rewrite stuff took months of probing to get a decent answer.

As for Panorama, this is the only change that we need to do and is the same for all sites:

cgi.pan

gets changed to:

cgi-bin/Panorama.cgi?PanoramaCGI~.cgiDispatch~

cgi.pan example - look at the URL after doing a search at: http://www.naturephotocentral.com/Open_Vocabulary.html

Panorama.cgi example - look at the URL after doing a search at: http://www.rogerwadestudio.com/Open_Vocabulary.html

Thanks again.

[pkSML]

[cenocre]

I had already figured it out and tried your last idea. It almost works, but changes the $ just AFTER the changing string to &.

Here is the log output. The ampersand in front of "bjphoto" started out as a dollar sign and should NOT have been changed. That appears to be the only issue.