Hello,
Please excuse my ignorance, but I can not seem to find a simple rewrite rule that works the way I want it. Basically, I try to use friendly URLs for my blog. The current blog is in a single CGI file (blog.cgi, at the root of /blog/blog.cgi). What I'm trying to accomplish is the following: All hits that come to h t t p s: / / w w w. m y d o m a i n. c o m / b l o g / (with or without a trailing slash), which should be passed to blog.cgi, including the proper handling of PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING. e.g .:
– h t t p s: // w w w. m y d o m a i n. c o m / b l o g / -> /home/yha/public_html/blog/blog.cgi, PATH_INFO = & # 39 ;, QUERY_STRING = & # 39; & # 39;
– h t t p s: // w w w. m y d o m a i n. c o m / b l o g -> /home/yha/public_html/blog/blog.cgi, PATH_INFO = & # 39 ;, QUERY_STRING = & # 39; & # 39;
– h t t p s: // w w w. m y d o m a i n. c o m / b l o g s l k f -> 404
– h t t p s: // w w w. m y d o m a i n. c o m / b l o g / 1 -> /home/yha/public_html/blog/blog.cgi, PATH_INFO = & # 39; / 1 & # 39 ;, QUERY_STRING = & # 39; & # 39;
– h t t p s: // w w w. mydomai n. com / blog / 2 0 1 1/7/2 4 -> /home/yha/public_html/blog/blog.cgi, PATH_INFO = & # 39; / 2011/7/24 & # 39 ;, QUERY_STRING = & # 39; & # 39;
– h t t p s: // w w w. mydomai n. com / blog / 2 0 1 1/7/2 4 & myparam = 1 -> /home/yha/public_html/blog/blog.cgi, PATH_INFO = & # 39; / 2011/7/24 & # 39; , QUERY_STRING = & # 39; myparam = 1 & # 39;
I had several attempts, but I never managed to work exactly as in the examples above. This is the next point I am used to. In my document root (/ home / yha / public_html) the following is inserted in .htaccess:
Rewrite Engine On
RewriteRule "^ / blog (. *) $" "/Blog/blog.cgi" [H=cgi-script,NC,L,E=PATH_INFO:$1]
The pattern should theoretically coincide with any URL beginning with / blog followed by any number of characters, and this should be captured in $ 1, which I set to PATH_INFO with the E flag. What I get is a 403: "You do not have permission to access the requested directory, either there is no index document or the directory is read-protected." If I remove the rewriting rules and access /blog/blog.cgi, it works fine, so I know it's not a permissions issue.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Many Thanks.
P.S. I'm sorry for the extra spaces in the URLs, but I can only post in the forums if all URLs are valid and return an answer, which is kind of annoying, as these are just examples to clarify my point of view.
