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Top Useful .htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite Tricks and Tips

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Re: Top Useful .htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite Tricks and Tips

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"This rewrites all files for /zap/j/anything-anynumber.js to /zap/j/anything.js and /zap/c/anything-anynumber.css to /zap/c/anything.css"

Why post a file called "foo-12930.css" and show it to browsers at "foo.css"? The opposite is better - keep updating foo.css (and use version control), but show it to users as "foo.css?some-timestamp". This is what Rails does. If your server is configured to tell browsers to cache CSS files for a year, they will request the file once, then continue to use the cached version until you update the file. Then they'll see that it has a new timestamp and get the new version.

This post (and the previous one) show how to do this in PHP: http://sleeplessgeek.blogspot.com/2010/03/cache-busting-in-p...

Re: Top Useful .htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite Tricks and Tips

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post #2

"This rewrites all files for /zap/j/anything-anynumber.js to /zap/j/anything.js and /zap/c/anything-anynumber.css to /zap/c/anything.css" Why post a file called "foo-12930.css" and show it to browsers at "foo.css"? The opposite is better - keep updating foo.css (and use version control), but show it to users as "foo.css?some-timestamp". This is what Rails does. If your server is configured to tell browsers to cache C…

The opposite is happening here. The user (browser) requests "foo-123.css" and is served "foo.css."

Re: Top Useful .htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite Tricks and Tips

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post #4

Seems like a copy of http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-tips-and-trick... but with no attrition.

Attribution.

In fact, being that it doesn't have the attribution, I'd say it did suffer from attrition.

But that's enough of me bein' a grammar nerd.

Re: Top Useful .htaccess rewrites, Mod_Rewrite Tricks and Tips

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post #4

Seems like a copy of http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/mod_rewrite-tips-and-trick... but with no attrition.

Attribution. In fact, being that it doesn't have the attribution, I'd say it did suffer from attrition. But that's enough of me bein' a grammar nerd.

thanks, had a typo and it got corrected to that