mod_rewrite

[sarahk]

A while back I was researching mod_rewrite and noticed that there was a way to say "do this first". I've been through a stack of pages and can't find it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[tsinka]

Hi,

what exactly do you want to do ?

[sarahk]

I'm writing a script called botspotter (one day it'll be at SourceForge) and I want it to have an option where it runs before every page is called.

Therefore I can ban bots which are just mail sweepers/ harvesters etc. Also saves users from having to add the code to every page.

By the way, love Karlsruhe. Hitched into town September '92 and ended up sleeping in the forecourt of a petrol station with a girlfriend! The guy we hitched with was living there and let us have a shower - bliss!

[tsinka]

Hi,

it is possible to redirect every request to a php script which can then decide what to do e.g. depending on the user agent with:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /directory
RewriteRule ^ rewrite.php [T=application/x-httpd-php]

The second line tells apache to apply the Rule to all request to /directory and it's subdirectories.

The third line tells apache to redirect every request to a page to rewrite.php. Additionally it changes the mime type to suite the rewrite.php mime type.

The script then can determine which url has been requested and do whatever it wants with it, e.g. include the page originally requested.

This is the simplest rule, you might want to add more rules to suite your needs.

Rgards,
Thomas

P.S.: I love Karlsruhe, too!