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JugglerX
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Posted: 10 August 2008 at 1:58am \| IP Logged

Hello again,

I'm finding understand and implementing even a simple URL rewrite extremely difficult. I've read the documentation and tried the examples to no avail.

Perhaps if I could get a working starting point I could trial and error my way from there on other areas of my website. So if anyone can suggest a rewrite rule for the following situation I would be very grateful.

I am running Isapi Rewrite 3.0 on IIS. I would like to use .htaccess files.

The main pages of my website use only 2 parameters
http://www.worldsurfaris.com/au/region.aspx?wsType=1&destID=1

wsType can be considered the category
destID can be considered the product

I would like
http://www.worldsurfaris.com/au/region.aspx?wsType=1&destID=1
=
http://www.worldsurfaris.com/surf-travel/category/product/

which in this case would result in http://www.worldsurfaris.com/surf-travel/surf-boats/Kuare-Catamaran/

Can anyone help out with a rewrite rule which would achieve this?

Rob

Anton
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Posted: 11 August 2008 at 4:15am \| IP Logged

I would advise you to use map file with the following config:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteMap mapfile txt:mapfile.txt
RewriteRule ^surf-travel/(.+)$ /region.aspx?${mapfile:$1}

And you will need to create mapfile.txt map file with the following content:

surf-boats/Kuare-Catamaran/ wsType=1&destID=1
another/smth wsType=2&destID=2
etc.

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JugglerX
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Posted: 11 August 2008 at 7:40am \| IP Logged

Hi Anton,

the region.aspx resides inside /au/ ( www.worldsurfaris.com/au/region.aspx )

I tried placing your code within a .htaccess file in /au/
I also placed the mapfile.txt in /au/

That did not work

Can you confirm this is the correct folder to place the files?

Anton
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Posted: 12 August 2008 at 2:47am \| IP Logged

Please put the .htaccess with the following content into the root of your site:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteMap mapfile txt:mapfile.txt
RewriteRule ^surf-travel/(.+)$ au/region.aspx?${mapfile:$1}

If it doesn't work, please provide rewrite log records for the specific request.

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