Zeus server URL rewriting

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Hi, I'm stumped. Register365 use a Zeus server instead of Apache like everyone else. I need to rewrite the URLs so that .php isn't required or visible in the address bar. On Apache with .htaccess that's pretty straight forward and well documented. For Zeus? Not so much.

I know it has to be done in a file called rewrite.script but that's as far as I've gotten. Register365 when contacted only give a link to a page which includes unuseful samples and a 404 to a user guide.

Does anyone have any ideas how to do it? I haven't a clue, any help greatly appreciated.

(Link http://www.register365.com/knowledge/hosting/support_centre/linux_hosting/528-zeus_rewrite_rules_user_guide.html )

Graham

Hasn't development in Zeus been discontinued for some time now?

Talk to your host, see if they can move you to a relevant platform (or move host).

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Graham wrote: »

Hasn't development in Zeus been discontinued for some time now?

Talk to your host, see if they can move you to a relevant platform (or move host).

As far as I know they only use Zeus and there's no alternative. Sadly I don't have time to move host before this becomes an issue; they printed advertising material for an event with the short URLs.

Graham

As soon as the event is done, I'd still recommend you move.

In the mean time this may help:

# get the document root
map path into SCRATCH:DOCROOT from /
# initialize our variables
set SCRATCH:ORIG_URL = %{URL}
set SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI = %{URL}

match URL into $ with ^(.*)\?(.*)$
if matched then
  set SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI = $1
  set SCRATCH:QUERY_STRING = $2
endif

# prepare to search for file, rewrite if its not found
set SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME = %{SCRATCH:DOCROOT}
set SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME . %{SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI}

# check to see if the file requested is an actual file or
# a directory with possibly an index.  don't rewrite if so
look for file at %{SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME}
if not exists then
  look for dir at %{SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME}
  if not exists then
    look for file at  %{SCRATCH:REQUEST_FILENAME}.php
    if exists then
        set URL = %{SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI}.php?%{SCRATCH:QUERY_STRING}
    else
        set URL = /index.php/%{SCRATCH:REQUEST_URI}?%{SCRATCH:QUERY_STRING}
    endif
  endif
endif
goto END

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1759420/hide-page-extensions-like-stackoverflow

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Lifesaver! Thank you so much, works perfectly.