RewriteBase wilcard?

jdblewitt · 02-02-2012, 05:44 AM

I have a directory...

/book-clubs

within this directory I have many many subdirectories. My question is do I have to make a htaccess for each subdirectory? I want to make...

http://www.bookclubshop.com/book-clu...section=review

http://www.bookclubshop.com/book-clubs/doubleday/review

Can I do this w/o putting a rewrite rule in the doubleday directory?

I would like to just have one rewrite rule in /book-clubs and somehow make the rewritebase /book-clubs/(wildcard) and then have the rule....can someone let me know if this is possible....or if there is a way to accomplish this? Thanks.

Fou-Lu · 02-02-2012, 03:38 PM

.htaccess cascades. You can put the rule set into the root and have it apply to all sub directories. IMO its more manageable to work directly off of a single cascading .htaccess than that of a subdirectory.
A simple match of ^/book-clubs/doubleday/(.*)$ /path/to/index.php?section=$1 will work fine.

jdblewitt · 02-02-2012, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fou-Lu

.htaccess cascades. You can put the rule set into the root and have it apply to all sub directories. IMO its more manageable to work directly off of a single cascading .htaccess than that of a subdirectory.
A simple match of ^/book-clubs/doubleday/(.*)$ /path/to/index.php?section=$1 will work fine.

Thanks so much...that's great news! So I can have just one in the root....what would the rule look like if I wanted all subdirectories in /book-clubs/ would it be..

^/book-clubs/(.*)$ index.php?section=$1

So then this would work for say...

http://www.bookclubshop.com/book-clu...section=review

as well as the doubleday subdirectory?

Fou-Lu · 02-02-2012, 08:17 PM

It keeps cascading yeah. But your ruleset will need refinement. As is, matching the .* will pull the subdirectories and provide them as matches to the ?section=$1 which may or may not be the intent. You need to be careful as well, if you redirect to a matched directories index file, it will cyclically redirect to that index likely causing a 500. So you'll want to look at using RewriteCond as well as RewriteRule to make it ignore certain things.