default rewrite rules not working properly with content/download

Wednesday 13 October 2010 10:44:08 am

The suggested rewrite rule that comes with default eZP installation in .htaccess_root:

RewriteRule !(\.(gif|jpe?g?|png|css|js|swf|html?)|var(.+)storage.pdf(.+)\.pdf)$ index.php

is not working properly. The problem is when you upload for example a .jpg image as an object of File class. The uploaded image can then be uploaded via an URL that goes like this:

/content/download/7151474/29980970/version/1/file/mypic.jpg

So because the URL ends with ".jpg", the it is not rewritten with index.php, and you get a 404 page.

As a quickfix I made this change:

RewriteRule !(design|var|share)/.*\.(gif|jpe?g|png|css|js|html)|var(.+)storage.pdf(.+)\.pdf$ index.php 

but this won't work if you have an eZ node with a path like this:

/var/some_node.jpg

Another idea is to have this rewrite rules:

RewriteRule ^.*content/download/.*$ index.php
RewriteRule !*\.(gif|jpe?g|png|css|js|html)|var(.+)storage.pdf(.+)\.pdf$ index.php 

But this will not work for static images URLs like this:

/design/content/download/some_image.jpg

Also a change to this last rule:

RewriteRule ^content/download/.*$ index.php
RewriteRule !*\.(gif|jpe?g|png|css|js|html)|var(.+)storage.pdf(.+)\.pdf$ index.php 

that matches only URLs that begin with "content/download" won't work because if you have multiple siteacces, it won't rewrite the URLs that begin with the siteaccess name.

I'll think about this further, but...

Anyone already has a better idea?

Can we get a rewrite rule that will work for all the cases?

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Hubert Farnsworth

Wednesday 13 October 2010 10:55:17 am

ps: you might find a working example in the rewrite rules commonly used for vhost setups (somewhere in the docs or on this site)

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Sunday 17 October 2010 11:48:49 am

Hm, why is then this rule made like this in the default .htaccess_root that comes with eZP?

Why don't we have by default the correct rewrite rules in .htaccess_root?

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Hubert Farnsworth