Re: can .htaccess make url better ?

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com> wrote:

On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:15 AM, J. Bakshi wrote:

Hello list,

the click enlarge facility of an image gallery generates the links in a
very ugly manner, like

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http://192.168.1.1/reifenqualitaet/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&file=uploads/tx_reifenqualitaetimage/image-227X227_02.jpg&bodyTag=<body>&wrap=%20|%20&md5=9021563e8e2c9efadb629ddd197f22bf
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Is it somehow possible to generate the link little nicer by the help of
.htaccess ?

It is possible, using mod_rewrite, to make most URLs look different. One person's notion of nice may be different from another. I would, however, recommend that you ask this question of users of this particular image gallery software, as they very likely have a standard way of doing what you're trying to do.

Failing that, I would suggest that you look at the mod_rewrite docs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/ and http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Rewrite) and see if there's something there that does what you need.

Also, note that .htaccess files are merely one of the places that you can put configuration directives. When possible, you should try to put directives in the server configuration file rather than in .htaccess files.

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Rich Bowen
rbowen@apache.org

Hey Rich, and anybody else who knows about this, what you've just said touches on a question I've been wondering about: a few folks at work have always told me that .htaccess was a really slow way to load configuration because it needs to be checked per directory, as opposed to the global configuration in httpd.conf or whatever that can be cached for the whole webserver.

How true is this really? I've worked on a couple of high-load high-availability webservers and we've never made a point of putting general site configuration and rewrite rules in the httpd.conf file, using .htaccess in the site root instead..

Having the ability to modify .htaccess without needing to restart the web-servers is nice but certainly not essential, we generally restart the webservers anyway when we make changes to the site in order to clear the op-code cache. I'm wondering though if we could retire a server and still support the same load, or at least see performance increases with a little jiggering of the configuration..

I guess the way to test this would be to just do it and see the results, I'll let you know what I find out, but hearing about actual experiences from anybody else would be nice too.

Re: [users@httpd] can .htaccess make url better ?

Jonathan Zuckerman

2010-03-08