Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 02:33 -0500, John Hinton wrote:

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Does anybody happen to know if 'for sure' the order in which you list modrewrite rules is the order in which they are processed within a .htaccess file? It does work, but I want to know that it always works.

Basically, I have some multiple wildcard rules, where directories can't be hard coded and as it goes deeper into the directories, the more shallow levels interfere with the deeper levels.

We just did some modrewrite rules for centos related to ISOs and it seems to me that the rules are processed in order ... so if you do the deepest stuff first, then the shallow stuff after, it should work.

At least it did for me ... I am not an expert on this by any means though :)

modrewrite is voodoo anyway! Whew! Well, it seems to me that apache has up until now reliably read the conf files in order. And, yes what I did, deeper first shallow last, is working, but darned if I can find anywhere that states it works this way. This is why I posted to CentOS, because I suppose a different OS could perhaps cache portions of the data and maybe get the order reversed.

Thanks for the response. I don't recall spending what amounted to about 10 hours to add 14 characters to an obvious string. Pretty expensive characters for the client (actually, mostly for me as I can't really bill for learn time). Then again, my regex knowledge isn't that great, but it is a whole lot better at the end of that 10 hours! ;)

Thanks, John Hinton

John Hinton wrote:

Thanks for the response. I don't recall spending what amounted to about 10 hours to add 14 characters to an obvious string. Pretty expensive characters for the client (actually, mostly for me as I can't really bill for learn time). Then again, my regex knowledge isn't that great, but it is a whole lot better at the end of that 10 hours! ;)

A good regex tutorial is: 1. http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html 2. Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition (Paperback) by Jeffrey Friedl