Apache2 rewrite rules

[Piotr Kirklewski]

Hi there
I need to hide some parts of the links in my domain:

http://www.my-domain.pl/1275-long-xdgt-bbbb-ccc-p-124.html?sale=LG-12.75-long-xdgt-bbbb-ccc

I want to show only http://www.my-domain.pl/ .

I also have some rules but they don't work:

RewriteEngine On

rewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.(php|html?)\ HTTP/
rewriteRule ^index\.(php|html?)$ http://www.my-domain.pl/ [R=301,L]

#
rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.www.my-domain.pl\.pl
rewriteRule (.*) http://www.my-domain.pl/$1 [R=301.L]


I'm still getting very long strings in the address bar.

Is there anyone who could explain why the rules wan't work ?

Reagrds

Peter

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

The rewrite rules only manipulate requests coming in from the browser, not the replies going out from the server.

Rewriting your long URL to point to the short URL would only make the long URL impossible to reach: any attempts to access it would only return the title page of your domain instead.

Usually the hiding of the long links is performed by first sending a frameset to the browser, then updating only the inner frames of the frameset. (i.e. the short URL sends the frameset and a some sort of session key, which might be a session cookie or a field in the inner-page URLs. If someone tries to access the inner pages without a valid session key, they can be redirected to the title page to pick up the frameset first.)

Of course, all data you send to the browser will be accessible to the user in some way: don't build your site security on the assumption that "nobody uses View Source".

MK

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

To achieve this goal, re-arrange the content on the server to a different layout.

SEP