Topic awaiting preservation: regular expression question

it's been so long since i've used any regex my brain just can't get this right, what would be the regex code to spot this in a url?

et::f14990edc0::b6bc3a9c67::676b8ec6a3

any help would be cool!
I've tryed quite a bit but still no match!

not asking for a lack of trying!

^(et::\w{10}::\w{10}::\w{10})$
^(et::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10})$

thanks for any help!!!

In an url? Like inside a string?

If so you want to remove the Start String (^) and end String ($) from the sides and then both should work.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

sweet! the little things that nevr dawn on you!

but it matches in a script but here is what I trying to do. I've made an invitation script like the one gmail uses but I dont want to have a url like

http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=register;code=et::f14990edc0::b6bc3a9c67::676b8ec6a3

I want to use

http://www.domain.com/et::f14990edc0::b6bc3a9c67::676b8ec6a3

and have .htaccess redirect to the script

ScriptAliasMatch http://www.domain.com/(et::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10}*) http://www.domain.com/index.php?action=register;code=$1

but thanks to you I am one step closer since the regex does work!

Thanks!

hey I just got the 500 error to go away!!!!!

EDIT: and have a 404... closer!




(Edited by Aquilo on 03-16-2006 03:49)

sweet I got it all working!!!

here is an example!

this example will let you use any thing you want for the email it doen't even check if it's an email address so you can use foobar if you want!
http://www.elbatigers.com/index.php?module=Invitations

I with I could get the rewriterule to hide the actual url and do the redirect behind the sceen, but this is working!

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(et::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10})$ http://www.elbatigers.com/index.php?module=Invitations&hash=$1 [R=301,L]

Can you use regex with mod_alias? Why not try using mod_rewrite http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html instead?

edit: Great, I left it the window open because I wanted to answer later, and the solution gets posted by the time I get to posting. Glad it's working.

Why are you repeating the domain in the rewrite rule? Won't this work just as well?

RewriteRule ^(et::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10}::[a-z0-9]{10})$ index.php?module=Invitations&hash=$1 [R=301,L]

Might need /index.php, but one or the other should work.

Cheers,
DC

(Edited by divinechaos on 03-16-2006 05:36)

when I didn't put the full url it added part of the path so it look something like
http://www.elbatigers.com/user/somethingelseidontremember/index.php?module=Invitations&hash=$1

ok now it works without http://www.elbatigers.com. Thanks for all the help!!!

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I with I could get the rewriterule to hide the actual url and do the redirect behind the sceen, but this is working!

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You can use mod rewrite to hide the url, that's probably the main application for mod rewrite. Just remove the redirect tag [R] at the end, 301 is probably the wrong tag to use anyway, since it's not a permanent redirect, save that for when you actually move content around.

You know it sucks the things you forget after 2 and a half years of not doing it!
I'd hate to look at a perl script since I haven't touched them since 2001!

EDIT: sorry double posted, the site was reallll slow so I clicked submit twice

(Edited by Aquilo on 03-16-2006 14:56)