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+<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p>
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+<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> &gt; <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> &gt; <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> &gt; <a href="../">Version 2.0</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>URL Rewriting Guide</h1>
+<div class="toplang">
+<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a></p>
+</div>
+
+
+ <p>This document supplements the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>
+ <a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">reference documentation</a>.
+ It describes how one can use Apache's <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>
+ to solve typical URL-based problems with which webmasters are
+ commonony confronted. We give detailed descriptions on how to
+ solve each problem by configuring URL rewriting rulesets.</p>
+
+ <div class="warning">ATTENTION: Depending on your server configuration
+ it may be necessary to slightly change the examples for your
+ situation, e.g. adding the <code>[PT]</code> flag when
+ additionally using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html">mod_alias</a></code> and
+ <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html">mod_userdir</a></code>, etc. Or rewriting a ruleset
+ to fit in <code>.htaccess</code> context instead
+ of per-server context. Always try to understand what a
+ particular ruleset really does before you use it. This
+ avoids many problems.</div>
+
+ </div>
+<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#canonicalurl">Canonical URLs</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#canonicalhost">Canonical Hostnames</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#moveddocroot">Moved <code>DocumentRoot</code></a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#trailingslash">Trailing Slash Problem</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#movehomedirs">Move Homedirs to Different Webserver</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#multipledirs">Search pages in more than one directory</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#setenvvars">Set Environment Variables According To URL Parts</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#uservhosts">Virtual User Hosts</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirecthome">Redirect Homedirs For Foreigners</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#redirectanchors">Redirecting Anchors</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> Time-Dependent Rewriting</li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> Backward Compatibility for YYYY to XXXX migration</li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#content">Content Handling</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#access">Access Restriction</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#other">Other</a></li>
+</ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">Module
+documentation</a></li><li><a href="rewrite_intro.html">mod_rewrite
+introduction</a></li><li><a href="rewrite_tech.html">Technical details</a></li></ul></div>
+<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="canonicalurl" id="canonicalurl">Canonical URLs</a></h2>
+
+
+
+<dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>On some webservers there are more than one URL for a
+ resource. Usually there are canonical URLs (which should be
+ actually used and distributed) and those which are just
+ shortcuts, internal ones, etc. Independent of which URL the
+ user supplied with the request he should finally see the
+ canonical one only.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We do an external HTTP redirect for all non-canonical
+ URLs to fix them in the location view of the Browser and
+ for all subsequent requests. In the example ruleset below
+ we replace <code>/~user</code> by the canonical
+ <code>/u/user</code> and fix a missing trailing slash for
+ <code>/u/user</code>.</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteRule ^/<strong>~</strong>([^/]+)/?(.*) /<strong>u</strong>/$1/$2 [<strong>R</strong>]
+RewriteRule ^/([uge])/(<strong>[^/]+</strong>)$ /$1/$2<strong>/</strong> [<strong>R</strong>]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="canonicalhost" id="canonicalhost">Canonical Hostnames</a></h2>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>The goal of this rule is to force the use of a particular
+ hostname, in preference to other hostnames which may be used to
+ reach the same site. For example, if you wish to force the use
+ of <strong>www.example.com</strong> instead of
+ <strong>example.com</strong>, you might use a variant of the
+ following recipe.</dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+<p>For sites running on a port other than 80:</p>
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully\.qualified\.domain\.name [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
+RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$
+RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name:%{SERVER_PORT}/$1 [L,R]
+</pre></div>
+
+<p>And for a site running on port 80</p>
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully\.qualified\.domain\.name [NC]
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
+RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name/$1 [L,R]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="moveddocroot" id="moveddocroot">Moved <code>DocumentRoot</code></a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+<p>Usually the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code>
+of the webserver directly relates to the URL "<code>/</code>".
+But often this data is not really of top-level priority. For example,
+you may wish for visitors, on first entering a site, to go to a
+particular subdirectory <code>/about/</code>. This may be accomplished
+using the following ruleset:</p>
+</dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We redirect the URL <code>/</code> to
+ <code>/about/</code>:
+ </p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteRule <strong>^/$</strong> /about/ [<strong>R</strong>]
+</pre></div>
+
+ <p>Note that this can also be handled using the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch">RedirectMatch</a></code> directive:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><p><code>
+RedirectMatch ^/$ http://example.com/e/www/
+</code></p></div>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="trailingslash" id="trailingslash">Trailing Slash Problem</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd><p>The vast majority of "trailing slash" problems can be dealt
+ with using the techniques discussed in the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ-E.html#set-servername">FAQ
+ entry</a>. However, occasionally, there is a need to use mod_rewrite
+ to handle a case where a missing trailing slash causes a URL to
+ fail. This can happen, for example, after a series of complex
+ rewrite rules.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>The solution to this subtle problem is to let the server
+ add the trailing slash automatically. To do this
+ correctly we have to use an external redirect, so the
+ browser correctly requests subsequent images etc. If we
+ only did a internal rewrite, this would only work for the
+ directory page, but would go wrong when any images are
+ included into this page with relative URLs, because the
+ browser would request an in-lined object. For instance, a
+ request for <code>image.gif</code> in
+ <code>/~quux/foo/index.html</code> would become
+ <code>/~quux/image.gif</code> without the external
+ redirect!</p>
+
+ <p>So, to do this trick we write:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteBase /~quux/
+RewriteRule ^foo<strong>$</strong> foo<strong>/</strong> [<strong>R</strong>]
+</pre></div>
+
+ <p>Alternately, you can put the following in a
+ top-level <code>.htaccess</code> file in the content directory.
+ But note that this creates some processing overhead.</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteBase /~quux/
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} <strong>-d</strong>
+RewriteRule ^(.+<strong>[^/]</strong>)$ $1<strong>/</strong> [R]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="movehomedirs" id="movehomedirs">Move Homedirs to Different Webserver</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Many webmasters have asked for a solution to the
+ following situation: They wanted to redirect just all
+ homedirs on a webserver to another webserver. They usually
+ need such things when establishing a newer webserver which
+ will replace the old one over time.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>The solution is trivial with <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>.
+ On the old webserver we just redirect all
+ <code>/~user/anypath</code> URLs to
+ <code>http://newserver/~user/anypath</code>.</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteRule ^/~(.+) http://<strong>newserver</strong>/~$1 [R,L]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="multipledirs" id="multipledirs">Search pages in more than one directory</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Sometimes it is necessary to let the webserver search
+ for pages in more than one directory. Here MultiViews or
+ other techniques cannot help.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We program a explicit ruleset which searches for the
+ files in the directories.</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+
+# first try to find it in custom/...
+# ...and if found stop and be happy:
+RewriteCond /your/docroot/<strong>dir1</strong>/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
+RewriteRule ^(.+) /your/docroot/<strong>dir1</strong>/$1 [L]
+
+# second try to find it in pub/...
+# ...and if found stop and be happy:
+RewriteCond /your/docroot/<strong>dir2</strong>/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
+RewriteRule ^(.+) /your/docroot/<strong>dir2</strong>/$1 [L]
+
+# else go on for other Alias or ScriptAlias directives,
+# etc.
+RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="setenvvars" id="setenvvars">Set Environment Variables According To URL Parts</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Perhaps you want to keep status information between
+ requests and use the URL to encode it. But you don't want
+ to use a CGI wrapper for all pages just to strip out this
+ information.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We use a rewrite rule to strip out the status information
+ and remember it via an environment variable which can be
+ later dereferenced from within XSSI or CGI. This way a
+ URL <code>/foo/S=java/bar/</code> gets translated to
+ <code>/foo/bar/</code> and the environment variable named
+ <code>STATUS</code> is set to the value "java".</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteRule ^(.*)/<strong>S=([^/]+)</strong>/(.*) $1/$3 [E=<strong>STATUS:$2</strong>]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="uservhosts" id="uservhosts">Virtual User Hosts</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Assume that you want to provide
+ <code>www.<strong>username</strong>.host.domain.com</code>
+ for the homepage of username via just DNS A records to the
+ same machine and without any virtualhosts on this
+ machine.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>For HTTP/1.0 requests there is no solution, but for
+ HTTP/1.1 requests which contain a Host: HTTP header we
+ can use the following ruleset to rewrite
+ <code>http://www.username.host.com/anypath</code>
+ internally to <code>/home/username/anypath</code>:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteCond %{<strong>HTTP_HOST</strong>} ^www\.<strong>[^.]+</strong>\.host\.com$
+RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C]
+RewriteRule ^www\.<strong>([^.]+)</strong>\.host\.com(.*) /home/<strong>$1</strong>$2
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="redirecthome" id="redirecthome">Redirect Homedirs For Foreigners</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We want to redirect homedir URLs to another webserver
+ <code>www.somewhere.com</code> when the requesting user
+ does not stay in the local domain
+ <code>ourdomain.com</code>. This is sometimes used in
+ virtual host contexts.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Just a rewrite condition:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^.+\.ourdomain\.com$</strong>
+RewriteRule ^(/~.+) http://www.somewhere.com/$1 [R,L]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="redirectanchors" id="redirectanchors">Redirecting Anchors</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>By default, redirecting to an HTML anchor doesn't work,
+ because mod_rewrite escapes the <code>#</code> character,
+ turning it into <code>%23</code>. This, in turn, breaks the
+ redirection.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Use the <code>[NE]</code> flag on the
+ <code>RewriteRule</code>. NE stands for No Escape.
+ </p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2>Time-Dependent Rewriting</h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>When tricks like time-dependent content should happen a
+ lot of webmasters still use CGI scripts which do for
+ instance redirects to specialized pages. How can it be done
+ via <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>?</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>There are a lot of variables named <code>TIME_xxx</code>
+ for rewrite conditions. In conjunction with the special
+ lexicographic comparison patterns <code>&lt;STRING</code>,
+ <code>&gt;STRING</code> and <code>=STRING</code> we can
+ do time-dependent redirects:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} &gt;0700
+RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} &lt;1900
+RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ foo.day.html
+RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ foo.night.html
+</pre></div>
+
+ <p>This provides the content of <code>foo.day.html</code>
+ under the URL <code>foo.html</code> from
+ <code>07:00-19:00</code> and at the remaining time the
+ contents of <code>foo.night.html</code>. Just a nice
+ feature for a homepage...</p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2>Backward Compatibility for YYYY to XXXX migration</h2>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>How can we make URLs backward compatible (still
+ existing virtually) after migrating <code>document.YYYY</code>
+ to <code>document.XXXX</code>, e.g. after translating a
+ bunch of <code>.html</code> files to <code>.phtml</code>?</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We just rewrite the name to its basename and test for
+ existence of the new extension. If it exists, we take
+ that name, else we rewrite the URL to its original state.</p>
+
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+# backward compatibility ruleset for
+# rewriting document.html to document.phtml
+# when and only when document.phtml exists
+# but no longer document.html
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteBase /~quux/
+# parse out basename, but remember the fact
+RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [C,E=WasHTML:yes]
+# rewrite to document.phtml if exists
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.phtml -f
+RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.phtml [S=1]
+# else reverse the previous basename cutout
+RewriteCond %{ENV:WasHTML} ^yes$
+RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="content" id="content">Content Handling</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <h3>From Old to New (intern)</h3>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Assume we have recently renamed the page
+ <code>foo.html</code> to <code>bar.html</code> and now want
+ to provide the old URL for backward compatibility. Actually
+ we want that users of the old URL even not recognize that
+ the pages was renamed.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We rewrite the old URL to the new one internally via the
+ following rule:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteBase /~quux/
+RewriteRule ^<strong>foo</strong>\.html$ <strong>bar</strong>.html
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+
+ <h3>From Old to New (extern)</h3>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Assume again that we have recently renamed the page
+ <code>foo.html</code> to <code>bar.html</code> and now want
+ to provide the old URL for backward compatibility. But this
+ time we want that the users of the old URL get hinted to
+ the new one, i.e. their browsers Location field should
+ change, too.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We force a HTTP redirect to the new URL which leads to a
+ change of the browsers and thus the users view:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteBase /~quux/
+RewriteRule ^<strong>foo</strong>\.html$ <strong>bar</strong>.html [<strong>R</strong>]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+
+ <h3>From Static to Dynamic</h3>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>How can we transform a static page
+ <code>foo.html</code> into a dynamic variant
+ <code>foo.cgi</code> in a seamless way, i.e. without notice
+ by the browser/user.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We just rewrite the URL to the CGI-script and force the
+ correct MIME-type so it gets really run as a CGI-script.
+ This way a request to <code>/~quux/foo.html</code>
+ internally leads to the invocation of
+ <code>/~quux/foo.cgi</code>.</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteBase /~quux/
+RewriteRule ^foo\.<strong>html</strong>$ foo.<strong>cgi</strong> [T=<strong>application/x-httpd-cgi</strong>]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="access" id="access">Access Restriction</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <h3>Blocking of Robots</h3>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>How can we block a really annoying robot from
+ retrieving pages of a specific webarea? A
+ <code>/robots.txt</code> file containing entries of the
+ "Robot Exclusion Protocol" is typically not enough to get
+ rid of such a robot.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We use a ruleset which forbids the URLs of the webarea
+ <code>/~quux/foo/arc/</code> (perhaps a very deep
+ directory indexed area where the robot traversal would
+ create big server load). We have to make sure that we
+ forbid access only to the particular robot, i.e. just
+ forbidding the host where the robot runs is not enough.
+ This would block users from this host, too. We accomplish
+ this by also matching the User-Agent HTTP header
+ information.</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^<strong>NameOfBadRobot</strong>.*
+RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^<strong>123\.45\.67\.[8-9]</strong>$
+RewriteRule ^<strong>/~quux/foo/arc/</strong>.+ - [<strong>F</strong>]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+
+ <h3>Blocked Inline-Images</h3>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Assume we have under <code>http://www.quux-corp.de/~quux/</code>
+ some pages with inlined GIF graphics. These graphics are
+ nice, so others directly incorporate them via hyperlinks to
+ their pages. We don't like this practice because it adds
+ useless traffic to our server.</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>While we cannot 100% protect the images from inclusion,
+ we can at least restrict the cases where the browser
+ sends a HTTP Referer header.</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} <strong>!^$</strong>
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.quux-corp.de/~quux/.*$ [NC]
+RewriteRule <strong>.*\.gif$</strong> - [F]
+</pre></div>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
+RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*/foo-with-gif\.html$
+RewriteRule <strong>^inlined-in-foo\.gif$</strong> - [F]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+
+ <h3>Proxy Deny</h3>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>How can we forbid a certain host or even a user of a
+ special host from using the Apache proxy?</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>We first have to make sure <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>
+ is below(!) <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> in the Configuration
+ file when compiling the Apache webserver. This way it gets
+ called <em>before</em> <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>. Then we
+ configure the following for a host-dependent deny...</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>^badhost\.mydomain\.com$</strong>
+RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\.mydomain.com.* - [F]
+</pre></div>
+
+ <p>...and this one for a user@host-dependent deny:</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>^badguy@badhost\.mydomain\.com$</strong>
+RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\.mydomain.com.* - [F]
+</pre></div>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+
+ </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="other" id="other">Other</a></h2>
+
+
+
+ <h3>External Rewriting Engine</h3>
+
+
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Description:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>A FAQ: How can we solve the FOO/BAR/QUUX/etc.
+ problem? There seems no solution by the use of
+ <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>...</p>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Solution:</dt>
+
+ <dd>
+ <p>Use an external <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code>, i.e. a program which acts
+ like a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code>. It is run once on startup of Apache
+ receives the requested URLs on <code>STDIN</code> and has
+ to put the resulting (usually rewritten) URL on
+ <code>STDOUT</code> (same order!).</p>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+RewriteEngine on
+RewriteMap quux-map <strong>prg:</strong>/path/to/map.quux.pl
+RewriteRule ^/~quux/(.*)$ /~quux/<strong>${quux-map:$1}</strong>
+</pre></div>
+
+<div class="example"><pre>
+#!/path/to/perl
+
+# disable buffered I/O which would lead
+# to deadloops for the Apache server
+$| = 1;
+
+# read URLs one per line from stdin and
+# generate substitution URL on stdout
+while (&lt;&gt;) {
+ s|^foo/|bar/|;
+ print $_;
+}
+</pre></div>
+
+ <p>This is a demonstration-only example and just rewrites
+ all URLs <code>/~quux/foo/...</code> to
+ <code>/~quux/bar/...</code>. Actually you can program
+ whatever you like. But notice that while such maps can be
+ <strong>used</strong> also by an average user, only the
+ system administrator can <strong>define</strong> it.</p>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+
+ </div></div>
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