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Rewrite rule for magento

Phil Daintree

8 January 2009, 11:12

Hi Hugo,

The magento shopping cart advertises as requiring apache ... I've been enjoying hiawatha!!
Is it possible to translate the rewrite rules for magento into URLToolkit syntax please - the Apache .htaccess file contains:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /magento/
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

Phil

Hugo Leisink

8 January 2009, 12:14

To convert those rules to Hiawatha's toolkit could be problematic, because of the E option (the Authorization rule). Hiawatha doesn't have a comparing feature. But besides that, it's a strange rule. A webapplication shouldn't need the Authorization HTTP header. My guess is that Magento wants to know the username of the current user. It should be read from the REMOTE_USER environment variable. So, this looks like bad design from Magento's side.

If we ignore the authorization rule, I guess it will be something like this:

UrlToolkit {
    ToolkitID = magento
    Match ^/(media|skin|js)/ Return
    RequestURI exists Return
    Match ^/magento/.* /magento/index.php
}

I haven't tested it, so it probably needs some tweaking.

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