[TYPO3] Redirect Question

[Christoph Kiefer]

Dear Christian, Matthew

Thanks again for the quick help. Matthew's trick with the symlink worked
well. However, the lines (now with real names)

RewriteCond $0ddis/fileadmin/ont/owl-s/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*/)([^/]*)$ $0ddis/fileadmin/ont/owl-s/$1 [L]

still produce a typo3 error

Error!

Error. Reason: Segment "ont" was not a keyword for a postVarSet as expected!

Although my problems is solved, it would be interesting to know why that
still happens? Maybe there is something wrong with my Apache
configuration...

Best,
Christoph

Christian Vetter wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Am 24.03.2006, 09:53 Uhr, schrieb Christoph Kiefer <kiefer at ifi.unizh.ch>:
> 
>> Christian
>>
>> Thanks for the quick help. Unfortunately, it didn't work your way :(
>>
>> Christian Vetter wrote:
>>
>>> 2/ To configure Apache, you'll need mod_rewrite (if using realurl,  
>>> you'll
>>> need it anyway). Your configuration should look like this:
>>> [conf]
>>>
>>> RewriteEngine On
>>> RewriteCond $0fileadmin/a/b/$1 -f
>> This condition will never be true, since people will never pose a query
>> string containing 'fileadmin' to the web server. They will just ask for
>> http://www.example.org/page/file-in-b.txt. Or am I wrong here???
>>
> 
> Indeed you are - you might want to read the  
> documentation(http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html).
> The Condition works on what is matched in the Rule that follows - that's  
> right, the one that follows (for details and to learn why this is see the  
> documentation *hint hint* ;) k, last time). That which is found by the  
> parentheses in the RewriteRule is put into the variables $0,$1..$9 in the  
> order they are found. Thus the following rule will, in conjunction with  
> the preceding condition, put 'fileadmin/a/b/' in front of the string after  
> the last '/' if - and this is where the condition comes to bear - that  
> file exists.
> 
>>> RewriteRule (.*/)([^/]*) $0fileadmin/a/b/$1 -[L]
>> Had no effect at all. I get a typo3 error:
>>
>> Error. Reason: Segment "a" was not a keyword for a postVarSet as  
>> expected!
> 
> I don't really know what this error means - I've had it once or twice, but  
> that's quite some time ago...
> Anyways, this line's probably wrong (at least it's not good), change it to  
> this:
> RewriteRule ^(.*/)([^/]*)$ $0fileadmin/a/b/$1 [L]
> Now the rewrite engine will only replace the request if it can match the  
> whole request, whereas with my earlier proposition it would match if it  
> found even a part in the request that would fit, probably causing you lots  
> of trouble...
> By the way, the '[L]' tells the rewrite engine to stop processing the  
> request if it can find a match here.
> 
> With the line above replaced and the respective file placed inside  
> [TYPO3]/fileadmin/a/b/ this should work as expected.
> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Matthew is right, as long as your server is configured to follow symlinks  
> - it's probably easier than using mod_rewrite, but now you also have the  
> code to do that so you have the freedom of choice :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Christian
> 
> 
>> Regards
>>
>>   Christoph
>>
>>> [/conf]
>>> Am 23.03.2006, 19:33 Uhr, schrieb Christoph Kiefer  
>>> <kiefer at ifi.unizh.ch>:
>>>
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I have the following problem: let's say our typo3-webpage runs at
>>>> 'http://www.example.org/page' and in the fileadmin-director of the
>>>> typo3-installation I have created the folders 'a/b'
>>>>
>>>> So far so good. I want to access the files in 'b' in the following way:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.example.org/page/file-in-b.txt for instance and *not* like
>>>> http://www.example.org/page/fileadmin/a/b/file-in-b.txt
>>>>
>>>> I know I need some kind of redirect mechanism here but cannot figure  
>>>> out
>>>>  which one.
>>>>
>>>> 1/ Is there a method without changing /httpd.conf/ and purely using
>>>> typo3 or some extension???
>>>>
>>>> 2/ How would I eventually have to change /httpd.conf/?
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be very appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>    Christoph