Appdb nice urls: best way to test indexing of production data

[Chris Morgan]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, John Klehm <xixsimplicityxix at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I can provide help with integrating the code with the appdb if you
>  >  have any questions. The real question I've got, since I haven't done
>  >  it before, is how to get the path the user specified, eg.
>  >  appdb.winehq.org/vendor/adobe (or whatever), into a php script so we
>  >  can redirect to the list of applications for the vendor 'adobe'.
>  >
>  >  Chris
>  >
>  >
>  >
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>  Well that did take a bit for me to work out as well here is what is
>  working for me on my apache 2.2.8
>
>  You have to have allowoveride Options in the parent conf files and then
>
>  filename: htdocs/appdb/.htaccess
>  RewriteEngine On
>  Options FollowSymLinks # need this as well as RewriteEngine On to
>  acutally get it going
>  RewriteBase /appdb/
>  RewriteRule ^app/(.*)$ matchAppByName.php?AppName=$1
>
>
>
>  This will let you have:  $1 is matched by the part of the url that is
>  not matched by http://hostname.com/appb/app/
>
>  e.g. appdb/app/adobe-photoshop-cs2
>  Results in matchAppByName.php?AppName=adobe-photoshop-cs2
>
>  I'm not adverse to help with appdb whatever gets it solved more quickly =)
>
>  Be careful when choosing your rewritebase as its more important than
>  you'd think =P
>
>  Hope this helps,
>  John
>

Right, this makes more sense. Checking REQUEST_URI in index.php won't
work because the path given won't match an existing page so you'll get
the 404 page instead.

Chris