Re: [ic] Rewrite rules kill forms

[Ton Verhagen <suppressed>]

Racke wrote:
> Ton Verhagen wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am playing a little with Rewrite rules in order to shorten the url's
> > generated by IC.
> >
> > I am using the following (Apache) Rewrite rules:
> >
> >     RewriteEngine On
> >     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^/*cgi-bin
> >     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^/*standard
> >     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^/*images
> >     RewriteRule ^/*(.*)$ /cgi-bin/standard/$1 [R=301]
> >
> >
> > The default Search box small component code (see below) generates
> > the following Error message after implementing Rewrite rules:
> > "Search strings must be at least 1 characters. You had no search string
> > specified."
> >
> >  <form action="http://www.mydomain.com/search.html"; method=post>
> >     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_coordinate VALUE=1>
> >     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_searchtype VALUE=db>
> >     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_matchlimit VALUE=10>
> >     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_sort_field VALUE=category>
> >     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_search_field VALUE=":*">
> >     <input type=hidden name=mv_min_string value=2>
> >     <input type=hidden name=mv_substring_match value=1>
> >     <INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME=mv_column_op VALUE="aq">
> >  <INPUT MAXLENGTH=30 NAME=mv_searchspec type=text size=15>
> >  <input type=submit>
> > </form>
> >
> >
> > Actually it seems that all other forms in the catalog stopped working
> > as well...  They worked ok before implementing the above Rewrite
> > rules though.
> >
> > I must be missing something obvious. Any thoughts?
>
> You don't need complicate things with using Rewrite. Alias directives
> are working just fine.
>
> Alias /images/ /home/racke/linuxia/html/images/
> Alias /css/ /home/racke/linuxia/html/css/
> Alias /js/ /home/racke/linuxia/html/js/
> Alias /interchange-5/ /var/www/interchange-5/
> Alias /favicon.ico /home/racke/linuxia/html/favicon.ico
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/linuxia/linuxia.de/cgi-bin/
> ScriptAliasMatch ^/(.*)$ /home/linuxia/linuxia.de/cgi-bin/linuxia/$1

Looks like an excellent alternative.

After implemented your Alias directive solution I get an HTTP 404 error
when accessing an existing catalog page .

Am I still missing something?


Best regards,

Ton

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