.htaccess question

[Bart van den Burg]

hi

i wish to redirect requests on a certain directory to 1 file in there, and
use the file requested as a parameter
(eg. http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/somefile.mpg?sessionID=4324FGD34sa ->
http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/download.pl?sessionID=4324FGD34sa&file=somefile.mpg)

Is this possible, and if yes: How do i do this?

thx
Bart

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

hi

i wish to redirect requests on a certain directory to 1 file in there, and
use the file requested as a parameter
(eg. http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/somefile.mpg?sessionID=4324FGD34sa ->
http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/download.pl?sessionID=4324FGD34sa&file=somefile.mpg)

Is this possible, and if yes: How do i do this?

Not sure, but mod_rewrite may be what you're after.

 

[Michael Weber]

Hi Bart,

[Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:40:46 +0200/Bart van den Burg]

i wish to redirect requests on a certain directory to 1 file in there, and
use the file requested as a parameter
(eg. http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/somefile.mpg?sessionID=4324FGD34sa ->
http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/download.pl?sessionID=4324FGD34sa&file=somefile.mpg)

Is this possible, and if yes: How do i do this?

Put a .htaccess to your _root_, containig

Redirect /video http://www.whatever.com/video/videoxy.mpg

A client who is calling "www.whatever.com/video" will get the mpg
in /video.

Always use absolute paths for redirecting.

regs
michael

 

[Bart van den Burg]

Hi Bart,

[Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:40:46 +0200/Bart van den Burg]

i wish to redirect requests on a certain directory to 1 file in there, and
use the file requested as a parameter
(eg. http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/somefile.mpg?sessionID=4324FGD34sa ->
http://www.tvreclames.nl/clips/download.pl?sessionID=4324FGD34sa&file=somefile.mpg)

Is this possible, and if yes: How do i do this?

Put a .htaccess to your _root_, containig

Redirect /video http://www.whatever.com/video/videoxy.mpg

A client who is calling "www.whatever.com/video" will get the mpg
in /video.

Always use absolute paths for redirecting.

Actually, that wasn't exactly what i was trying to achieve, but I have
finally figured it out anyway

say for instance I was calling:
http://www2.tvreclames.nl/somevideo.mpg?sessionID=P2YvgcCoASgAAA4CF-c

I had the .htaccess like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ([^.]*\.mpg) http://www2.tvreclames.nl/download.pl?file=$1

Refering me to:
http://www2.tvreclames.nl/download.pl?file=somevideo.mpg
(I took it out of the clips dir, since it's in fact only 1 file)

This still didn't give me the sessionID, which I just fetched with perl
using $ENV{REQUEST_URI}

Quite a nice learning process, since before trying this, I knew nothing of
..htaccess

Bart