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[John Joseph Bachir <jjb AT ibiblio.org>]

hey folks. just reading this thread now. super busy these days with my day 
job. but any tickets submitted WILL get attention eventually. So please 
submit bug reports with as much detail as you have, and rest assured they 
will be attended to.


On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, DaveG wrote:

> In your scenario I think the fundamental issue is how are you going to
> determine whether the URL gets treated as a lyceum URL or as a Drupal
> URL. This is important because your processing rules for each are
> different. In other words, what are the rules for Lyceum and Drupal url
> processing? What will Drupal URL's look like, and what will Lyceum URL's
> look like, and what do you want the user to see in the browser? If you
> can provide samples of the Drupal and Lyceum url's and how you want that
> URL rewritten it will be easier to help with the .htaccess rules.
>
> I'm looking for something like:
> Drupal base url: http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?q=1234
> Drupal user url: http://www.mydomain.com/drupal/file1
>
> Lyceum base url: http://www.mydomain.com/lyceum/......
> Drupal user url: http://www.mydomain.com/.....
>
> > # Various rewrite rules.
> > <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> >   RewriteEngine On
> >   RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)
> >   RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%1/$1 [R,L]
> These two lines handle any url requests to www.yourdomain.com and change
> it into yourdomain.com. In the case on lifehaiku we need this because we
> make use of Lyceums ability to store blogs like myblog.mydomain.com. Are
> you doing this on your site? If not remove those lines.
>
> >   RewriteRule ^(.*) lyceum/$1 [QSA,L]
> This last line basically says to redirect *all* requests to the lyceum
> directory. The L directive at the end says to stop processing the
> .htaccess file after this rule. That's a problem since now we're not
> doing any Drupal stuff that follows. So remove that last line. The
> problem now is that no lyceum
> > <SNIP>
> >
> >   # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
> >   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> >   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> >   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
> If the requested URL is not a file and it's not a directory then rewrite
> the url to the format index.php?q=xxxx. This is the Drupal processing.
> The problem again is that at no point have we determined a criteria for
> differentiating Drupal from Lyceum -- so they get handled the same way,
> which has to be wrong for one case at least.
>
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