On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Cayford wrote:
> Tom Penney wrote:
>> [...]
>> I would think this rule would work:
>> RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ ${txtmap:$1} [L]
>>
>> And it does work for this url:
>> http://domain.com/page/one
>>
>> but does not match this url:
>> http://domain.com/page/one/
>> because the ".*" is gobbling up the trailing slash and not finding it in my map
>>
>> any suggestions?
>
> In perl regexes you can use ".*?" instead of ".*" to make it a
> non-greedy match. Does that work?
I was going to ask about that too, but I have the impression that you can
simplify further. I think maybe this is what you want to handle all
cases:
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+?/)*[^/]+)/?$ ${txtmap:$1} [L]
I'm not entirely clear on what you are doing, but that will allow for any
number of initial strings followed by slashes. So...
itmatchesthis
andthis/
and/it/matches/this
and/it/matches/this/
...and the trailing slash is dropped such that $1 never has a trailing
slash. By the way, this might be just as good:
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+?/)*[^/]+)/*$ ${txtmap:$1} [L]
I replaced a question mark with an asterisk to allow any number of
trailing slashes, all of which are not held in $1.
I don't know if any of this works for you though.
Mike