rewrite rules cms phpwcms not working

[Francis Daly]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 06:26:59PM -0500, dansch8888 wrote:

Hi there,

> I tried your examples and they work very well.
> In the next days I will test it more extensive.

Good to hear, thanks.

> > >
> (track|include|img|template|picture|filearchive|content|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)($|/)
> > > - [L]
> > I think that say "anything that matches that pattern should be served
> > as a plain file, and not given to the php interpreter". But there are
> > also .htaccess files in some of those directories.
> 
> Yes, that's true, but isn't it also that at the apache server this folders
> and files are just excluded for rewrite?

That sounds correct. I stated it badly.

"Do not rewrite, and therefore do not fall through to /index.php, for
these requests."

They are handled by whatever else the apache config says.

> > if ($request_uri ~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.html) {
> > set $bit_of_qs "id=$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6";
> > }
> 
> This is comming from some old versions of the CMS I believe, were not always
> aliases were set up.
> At the moment, when you create a article, the CMS sets an dummy alias by
> default.
> In the "old" time, there were urls like this index.php?id=0.0.0.0.0.0
> Now there are normaly such urls index.php?dummyalias only.

If that part isn't needed, then so much the better.

All nginx cares about is: for incoming requests, how should they be handled?

> > location / {
> > try_files $uri $uri/ @index.php;
> > }
> 
> Is there a need for the $uri/?

The apache config seemed not to do the rewrite (= /index.php fallback)
if the request was for something that was recognised as an existing
directory. This is the same.

I do not know if it is needed in your implementation.

> I had read this is for subfolder only. This CMS need the rewrite just for
> the root folder and index.php.

It was not clear to me how a request for /dir/file.html should be handled,
depending on the existence of "dir" and "file.html".

If that kind of request matters in the cms, you should probably test
that it does what you want.

Good luck with it,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org