possible to create short url? (www.domain.com/forums) ?

[DAB Empire]

Is there any way to use rewrite or anything to create a short url for the bridged forums?  Not a redirect, but it would actually create url's as SMF does regularly.

Example:
Forum source - www.domain.com/forum
Bridged forums - www.domain.com/component.......
Short URL to bridged forums - www.domain.com/forums

[Kindred]

no....

the bridge must call com_smf...

[[Unknown]]

Couldn't you use mod_rewrite, Kindred?  For example:

RewriteMatch /forum/(index.php)? /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,47/
RewriteMatch /forum/index.php/(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,47/$1
RewriteMatch /forum/index.php\?(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,47/?$1

-[Unknown]

[Orstio]

There should be a way to do it with mod_rewrite.

Playing with .htaccess isn't one of my specialties...

[Kindred]

[Unknown]...

after thinking about it, I agree, you may be correct...   using mod_rewrite in the htaccess file, like you suggest SHOULD have the effect he is looking for.

The user could then type in site.com/forum and be redirected to site.com/index.php/coponent... etc

[DAB Empire]

Well, it did redirect everything correctly.   But, I was hoping for it to display the short url.  It redirects to the component url.  I am hoping to have a short url so it's easy for people to use and those that already skip the bridge and type in directly to the forum url can continue to do so as well.

[Kindred]

well....  it's still easy for them to use. They type in the URL and are redirected. They don't have to know the redirect, they can still type in the "short" url...

but access to the bridge, if it is not standalone MUST be accessed by com_smf.
As noted by [unknown], you can use mod_rewrite to redirect the short urls over to the correct one (which is what you are doing) but the correct one needs to display in the address bar, otherwise all the _GETs etc will be screwed up.

[buf]

EliteRides, keep an eye out for this: http://opensef.org/
Meanwhile, you may try xaneon extensions 2.0.0 beta 2, it seems to be working for me (at least, right now).

[DAB Empire]

Fair enough.  As always, thanks.

[[Unknown]]

well....  it's still easy for them to use. They type in the URL and are redirected. They don't have to know the redirect, they can still type in the "short" url...

but access to the bridge, if it is not standalone MUST be accessed by com_smf.
As noted by [unknown], you can use mod_rewrite to redirect the short urls over to the correct one (which is what you are doing) but the correct one needs to display in the address bar, otherwise all the _GETs etc will be screwed up.

Actually, that can be changed too.

If you use an internal redirect (which, iirc, is the default) you can modify smf.php to point to that URL, and it will be no different to Apache.

-[Unknown]

[DAB Empire]

I have a weird issue.  When I originally tried this it worked fine.  Now when I add it to my forums .htaccess file I get an internal server error.  Here is what I added.

Code Select Expand

RewriteMatch /forums/(index.php)? /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/
RewriteMatch /forums/index.php/(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/$1
RewriteMatch /forums/index.php\?(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/?$1

[DAB Empire]

I updated the ItemId.  Should I not have?

[[Unknown]]

I don't see what would cause a 500 from that.  You'llhave to check your error log.

By the way, change this:

RewriteMatch /forums/(index.php)? /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/

To:

RewriteMatch /forums/(index.php)?$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/

-[Unknown]

[DAB Empire]

Here is what the log file says:

[Tue Sep 13 15:49:03 2005] [alert] [client 205.158.36.170]Invalid command 'RewriteMatch', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Did I misspell something, or did my host change their configurations to no longer allow this?

[[Unknown]]

Do you have RewriteEngine on in the file somewhere?

If so, mod_rewrite is no longer installed.

-[Unknown]

[DAB Empire]

This is what I have in my forums/.htaccess file:

Code Select Expand

AddType text/html .shtml .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

RewriteEngine

RewriteMatch /forums/(index.php)?$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/
RewriteMatch /forums/index.php/(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/$1
RewriteMatch /forums/index.php\?(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/?$1

I don't know what the other stuff is.  I must have copied it form somewhere.  When it worked the first time I must have deleted something I needed for this RewriteMatch to work.  Should I need to delete/add anything?

[[Unknown]]

Actually, isn't it RewriteRule?  This topic is the second result on Google for "RewriteMatch".

My typo, but why did it work for you at first?

-[Unknown]

[DAB Empire]

I tried RewriteRule.  I no longer receive a 500 error, but it is not redirecting either.

This goes in the forums/.htaccess file, right?  Not the root .htaccess file?  When it worked for me the first time it was in the forums file.  I run into the same 500 error problems in either .htaccess file I try this in now.

[[Unknown]]

No, it has to be in the root.  And actually, I think it should be:

RewriteRule ^forums...

For all the rules.  What I posted originally really was just psuedo code.

-[Unknown]

[DAB Empire]

To make sure I'm on the same page, I have:

Code Select Expand

RewriteRule ^forums/(index.php)?$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/
RewriteRule ^forums/index.php/(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/$1
RewriteRule ^forums/index.php\?(.*)$ /component/option,com_smf/ItemId,175/?$1

We might be getting closer.  With that I no longer receive an error, but it takes me to my root index page.  I can keep going to eliterides.com/forums but it always takes me to eliterides.com