[FX.php List] [Off] Help with .htaccess RewriteRule or Redirect

[Roger Moffat]

On Mar 21, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:

> Maybe it's not the right RewriteRule, or maybe SpeakEasy needs to  
> enable rewrite for me. Or maybe the permissions are wrong.
>
> Any thoughs?

 From what you've said, SpeakEasy (who happens to be my ISP, with my  
servers running over one of their 6 MBit DSL lines into my house) have  
their end in order to allow .htaccess to be used.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_intro.html

might get you started with explaining the syntax that's needed.

If you put the .htaccess into the flasking directory on www.troymeyers.com 
  then that would mean the rewrite would only be working on requests  
that have made it to that directory.

So you might do something like this example from the page referenced  
above

RewriteRule ^/product/(.*)/view$ /var/web/productdb/$1
The variable $1 will be replaced with whatever text was matched by the  
expression inside the parenthesis in the Pattern. For example, a  
request for http://example.com/product/r14df/view will be mapped to  
the path /var/web/productdb/r14df

for example

RewriteRule ^/flasking/(.*) http://lab.troymeyers.com/flasking/$1

Roger