ScriptAliasMatch

[CrazyHarry]

Hi,

I am trying to take a URL that looks like this:

http://www.domain.com/webstore/web_store.cgi?product=ProductName

and make it look like:

http://www.domain.com/store/shop/ProductName

(so that if this is a url link on the site it will take you to

http://www.domain.com/webstore/web_store.cgi?product=ProductName)

I am being told to use:

scriptaliasmatch ^/webstore/web_store.cgi?product=(.*)
/home/pmt/public_html/store/shop/

But I have no idea about the how/where/why to all this... Do I need to make another file? Where does this go? Can somebody step-by-step me? I've googled scriptaliasmatch, and to be VERY honest, I have no idea how it works.

Thanks for your help,

CH

 

[ericbrunson]

I've never seen ScriptAliasMatch, but I do something *very* similar for a customer using mod_rewrite. I'll explain how it's done using rewrite rules and yoy may be able to extend that knowlege to understand what is happening in your config.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/store/shop/(.*) /wstore/store.cgi?product=$1

The rule says:
^ says the match starts at the beginning of the URL
/store/shop/ match *exactly* this text
.* inside the parens is "match anything and everything"
() says remember what the contents of the parens matched for later use

After it matches the URL, whatever the .* matched is available for reference via "$1", so it just drops it into the GET format and calls the appropriate URL.

Hopefully this can help you understand what the other suggestion is doing.

 

[CrazyHarry]

Hi,

Ok, I would be willing to try this!

Where do I put this code? I am *very* new to this end of things.

Is there a file that it goes in?

Sorry to be such a newbie,

CH

 

[ericbrunson]

Try your .htaccess, but you have to have .htaccess enabled, and you have to have mod_rewrite installed. It was intalled in my fedora rpm by default.

 

[CrazyHarry]

Any idea which dir .htaccess is located?

Is this something I should be able to find by searching my dirs via FTP?

Thanks again.

 

[ericbrunson]

The .htaccess should go in your document root.