.htaccess / URL rewrite issue with a script

[Kent]

Aprelium, I want to run a certain script on my server here at home...
BUT they wrote their script to rely on apache's URL rewritting..

so now I need to translate the .htaccess commands to
work with abyss..


can you help me translate this?



<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# ugly ugly hack to detect missing mod_rewrite
# RedirectMatch must be to an absolute destination, so forces 500 error...
ErrorDocument 500 "error: Apache does not have mod_rewrite loaded. Please check your apache setup."
RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
</IfModule>

<Files "htaccess-dist">
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

Options +FollowSymLinks

# PHP defaults to allowing file uploads of max 2MB, below is example option for 5MB.
# NB: Adjusting value may not work, depending on other configured php and apache limits
#php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880

# Elgg can be more of a RAM lover than PHP's default of 8 meg. E.g. 16 meg:
#php_value memory_limit 16777216

# Not really necessary, just to be clean
#php_flag short_open_tag off
# Forgot that anyone might still have this turned on
#php_flag register_globals off

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine on



RewriteRule ^([0-9\-]+)\.css$ _templates/css.php?template=$1

RewriteRule ^(.+)\/rssstyles.xsl$ _rss/styles.php?rssurl=$1&url=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/dashboard(\/)?$ mod/adash/index.php?user=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)(\/)?$ profile/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/profile(\/)?$ profile/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/tags(\/)?$ search/personaltags.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/rss\/?$ _rss/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=profile
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ profile/rss2.php?profile_name=$1&tag=$2

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/?$ _rss/subscriptions.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/all\/?$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/newsclient\/all\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1&feed_offset=$2

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/?$ _rss/subscriptions.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/all\/?$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/feeds\/all\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _rss/index.php?profile_name=$1&feed_offset=$2

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/?$ _weblog/index.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _weblog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/category\/([^\/]+)\/?$ _weblog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&filter=$2
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/category\/([^\/]+)\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _weblog/index.php?weblog_name=$1&filter=$2&weblog_offset=$3
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/archive\/?$ _weblog/archive.php?weblog_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/archive\/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)\/?$ _weblog/archive_month.php?weblog_name=$1&year=$2&month=$3
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/friends\/?$ _weblog/friends.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/friends\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _weblog/friends.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/interesting\/?$ _weblog/interesting.php?weblog_name=$1
ReWriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/interesting\/skip=([0-9]+)$ _weblog/interesting.php?weblog_name=$1&weblog_offset=$2
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rss\/?$ _rss/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=weblog
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ _weblog/rss2.php?weblog_name=$1&tag=$2&modifier=is
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/weblog\/rssnot\/(.+)\/?$ _weblog/rss2.php?weblog_name=$1&tag=$2&modifier=not
RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z0-9]+\/weblog\/([0-9]+)\.html$ _weblog/view_post.php?post=$1
RewriteRule ^[A-Za-z0-9]+\/weblog\/([0-9]+)\.html.([0-9]+)$ _weblog/view_post.php?post=$1&commentpage=$2

RewriteRule ^tag\/(.+)\/?$ search/all.php?tag=$1
RewriteRule ^rsstag\/(.+)\/?$ search/rss.php?tag=$1
RewriteRule ^tag\/(.+)/ecl\/?$ search/ecl.php?tag=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/friends\/?$ _friends/index.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/foaf\/?$ _friends/foaf.php?friends_name=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/communities\/?$ _communities/index.php?friends_name=$1
RewriteRule ^community\/([0-9]+)\/?$ _communities/community.php?community_id=$1

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/?$ _files/index.php?files_name=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/([0-9]+)\/?$ _files/index.php?files_name=$1&folder=$2
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/([0-9\-]+)\/([0-9]+)\/(.+)$ _files/download.php?files_name=$1&folder=$2&filename=$4&id=$3
RewriteRule ^(([A-Za-z0-9])[A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/rss\/?$ _rss/static.php?username=$1&userref=$2&type=files
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)\/files\/rss\/(.+)\/?$ _files/rss2.php?files_name=$1&tag=$2

RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)$ _icons/icon.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)$ _icons/icon.php?id=$1&constraint1=$2&size1=$3
RewriteRule ^_icon\/user/([-0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)\/([A-Za-z])\/([0-9]+)$ _icons/icon.php?id=$1&constraint1=$2&size1=$3&constraint2=$4&size2=$5
RewriteRule ^_icon\/file/([-0-9]+)$ _files/icon.php?id=$1

RewriteRule xml-rpc.php _rpc/RPC2.php
RewriteRule mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi _rpc/RPC2.php

</IfModule>

[TRUSTAbyss]

Have a look at this:
http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10033

[aprelium]

Kent,

The RewriteRules are what you'll have to "translate" (into URL rewriting rules on Abyss Web Server) as explained in the article cited by TrustAbyss.

If you have any problem, please let us know.
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Support Team
Aprelium - http://www.aprelium.com

[Kent]

To be quite honest I dont understand any of what I read in the referenced thread... I need as much help as you can give

[TRUSTAbyss]

What script are you installing? I can test it if you provide us with a link to the
script's website. I will post instructions after.

[Kent]

it's called Elgg, its an open source social networking script VERY COOL (you can make your own myspace site)

http://elgg.org -

any help you can give me on getting the url rewritting will be very aprecciated :)

[aprelium]

Kent,

If the script is put inside /elgg for example (which means, if that .htaccess file is accessible using http://yoursite/elgg/.htaccess), each line starting with RewriteRule should be translated in a URL rewriting as follows:

For example, translating:

[Kent]

well I thought I understood what you were telling me....lol I tried adding things in the way I understood what you said and I still have the broken links for the parts of the script that use the RewriteRule ..
my elgg installation resides in the main root of htdocs.

heres what I did....

the following is a cliping from my conf file

[aprelium]

Kent,

You still have not prefixed the regular expression and the redirect to with your script location.

For example: ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)(\/)?$ should be ^/SCRIPT_LOCATION/([A-Za-z0-9]+)(\/)?$ and //SCRIPT_LOCATION/profile/index.php?profile_name=$1
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Support Team
Aprelium - http://www.aprelium.com

[Kent]

I figured it out :)

instead of this:

^/SCRIPT_LOCATION/([A-Za-z0-9]+)(\/)?$
/SCRIPT_LOCATION/profile/index.php?profile_name=$1

========================================

I did :

^\/([A-Za-z0-9]+)(\/)?$
/profile/index.php?profile_name=$1

and now it works.. \/ did the job