re: Rewrite urls for Mambo

jrobbio · #1 30-Jun-2003, 16:51

I've just realised that pages like
http://www.topfunwebsites.com/mambo/...age&Sub Menu= are not being crawled properly by Google, its cutting them off like this: http://www.topfunwebsites.com/mambo/...page&Itemid=47 and therefore missing all the subpages there.

I think it might be my time to attempt a re-write rule on the site. I tried once before, but I got all kinds of errors and chickened out of it.

Rob

JdS · #2 30-Jun-2003, 16:55

Go for it, I'll be more than happy to help you - but you know that already!

jrobbio · #3 30-Jun-2003, 17:20

Thanks man.

Ok here goes nothing:

I've got this from somewhere else that had a mambo mod_rewrite htaccess file.

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^article(.*).html$ index.php?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=$1
RewriteRule ^content(.*).html$ index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=$1&op=page&SubMenu=
RewriteRule ^brands(.*).html$ index.php?option=articles&Itemid=$1
RewriteRule ^offers(.*).html$ index.php?option=news&Itemid=$1
RewriteRule ^links(.*).html$ index.php?option=weblinks&Itemid=4

For /index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=47&op=page&Sub Menu= I would like to see something like http://www.topfunwebsites.com/mambo/e-cards/ecards.html

For /index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=58&op=page&Sub Menu= I would like to see something like
http://www.topfunwebsites.com/mambo/...limpfish1.html

For /index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=56&op=page&Sub Menu= I would like to see http://www.topfunwebsites.com/mambo/...is-castle.html

So here goes my attempt:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^e-cards/ecards(.*).html$ index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=47&op=page&SubMenu=
RewriteRule  ^e-cards/limpfish1(.*).html$ index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=58&op=page&SubMenu=
RewriteRule  ^takeshis-castle(.*).html$ 
index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=56&op=page&SubMenu=

How does this look.

Rob

JdS · #4 02-Jul-2003, 08:58

I can't get to your website presently, I suspect it's the Google ads acting up, which it is today.

JdS · #5 02-Jul-2003, 11:34

Let's take this step by step:

Your query string in /index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=47&op=page&Sub Menu=
only passes 4 values to the script in index.php i.e.

Code:

option = "displaypage"
Itemid = 47
op = "page"
SubMenu = ""

Out of these, if option, op and SubMenu doesn't change much, then you could effectively do the following:

File: .htaccess in the /mambo folder.

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /mambo
RewriteRule ^articles/(.*)\.html$ index.php?option=displaypage&op=page&Itemid=$1&SubMenu= [L]

Your html to show the links:

HTML Code:


<ul>
  <li><a href="/mambo/articles/47.html">E Cards</a></li>
  <li><a href="/mambo/articles/58.html">Limp Fish</a></li>
  <li><a href="/mambo/articles/56.html">Takeshi's Castle</a></li>
</ul>

Rewriting URLS requires massive attention to the finest detail so expect a single misplaced slash here or there to mess up everything else.

Try this first - if and when it works, then, we can add to these rewrite rules and make some fancier changes.

jrobbio · #6 02-Jul-2003, 12:05

I got a 403 saying that it couldn't access /mambo

JdS · #7 02-Jul-2003, 12:07

OK, I'll have to replicate your site structure and test it out... but tomorrow

Hang in there...

jrobbio · #8 23-Jul-2003, 06:30

Ok the reason why I was getting errors was because I hadn't added
Options +FollowSymLinks

before turning on mod_write

The problem now is that it isn't actually working, its just being ignored.
e.g.

Code:

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# direct one-word access
RewriteRule ^/articles/?$           /tiki-view_articles.php                   [L]

# access any object by its numeric identifier
RewriteRule ^/article/?([0-9]+)       /tiki-read_article.php?articleId=$1       [QSA,L]

# todo add support for all characters allowed in a Wiki name
# make sure this is the last rule!
RewriteRule	/([-_\+A-Za-z0-9]+)$    /tiki-index.php?page=$1                   [QSA,L]

Can you see anything wrong their?

JdS · #9 23-Jul-2003, 06:33

Oh Rob... I am so sorry! I totally forgot about this thread...

thanks for reminding me.

One quick question what's [QSA, L]?

jrobbio · #10 23-Jul-2003, 06:48

qsa (query string append) - The help doc says that qsa forces the rewriting engine to append a query string part in the substitution string to the existing one instead of replacing it.
L means last.

Rob

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