[Resolved] Anyone know anything about "mod_rewrit" (not a typo)?

zdislaw

Can anyone here explain what mod_rewrit (no "e") is? All I've been able to tell is that it's a dumb version of mod_rewrite and there is no existing documentation. Has anyone here used it with any success? "RewriteEngine On" in .htaccess just throws 500 errors with this idiotic module.

Every request for info I found on this module in forums across the 'net seemed to immediately kill the thread or get no responses, but I found lots of hosts listing it in their installed modules. Surely, someone knows how to use this module. I mean, someone wrote the stupid thing, right?

I'm beginning to think it's the product of some shadowy cult operating out of parts unknown with the sole intent of driving me absolutely crazy.

Thanks,
Tim

yelvington

I've never heard of it, but after two minutes of looking at Google hits, here is my suspicion:

1) Your Web hosting provider actually is a sales organization, and the hosting backend service is provided by Alabanza (a high-volume Web hosting wholesaler). You can check this by doing an ARIN lookup of your IP address to see who actually owns it. For example:

OrgName: Alabanza, Inc.
OrgID: ALAB
Address: 10 East Baltimore St., 10th floor
City: Baltimore
StateProv: MD
PostalCode: 21202
Country: US

NetRange: 216.147.0.0 - 216.147.127.255
CIDR: 216.147.0.0/17
NetName: ALABANZA-BALT-2
NetHandle: NET-216-147-0-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS.ALABANZA.COM
NameServer: NS2.ALABANZA.COM
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 1998-12-17
Updated: 2000-01-26

2) mod_rewrit seems to be something that Alabanza uses internally and it is not intended to provide an interface for end users. "For security reasons" they won't talk about it.

3) mod_rewrite (the real one) is not available to you.

zdislaw

Yeah, I think you're right. That site is on an Alabanza box. Oh well. Thanks for the tip!

Anyone got any tricky ways to change friendly URLs into "index.php?page=this&layout=that" queries that don't involve mod_rewrite?

Thanks...

yelvington

Sure, you can parse the _SERVER[REQUEST_URI] in PHP.

zdislaw

Oh duh. Yeah. Just "explode" and replace the slash with "?page=". Would that be the best method?