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Salathe · 10-28-2008, 11:55 AM

It'll probably make more sense to use a regular expression to match short urls and throw them into the redirect page.

Code:

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite to redirect.php
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]{4,7}$ redirect.php?url=$0 [NC,L]

Of course, the pattern might need changing to suit your own application as the one above might be a little too loose (or tight!) in what's allowed or not (alpha-numeric, underscore or dash between 4 and 7 in length (inclusive)).

10-28-2008, 11:55 AM	#3 (permalink)
Salathe Moderateur Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,347 Thanks: 5	It'll probably make more sense to use a regular expression to match short urls and throw them into the redirect page. Code: # Turn on URL rewriting RewriteEngine On # Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # Rewrite to redirect.php RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]{4,7}$ redirect.php?url=$0 [NC,L] Of course, the pattern might need changing to suit your own application as the one above might be a little too loose (or tight!) in what's allowed or not (alpha-numeric, underscore or dash between 4 and 7 in length (inclusive)).