<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Apache mod_rewrite magic</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Bugzilla Guide - 2.17.5 Development Release" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla" HREF="patches.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla" HREF="patches.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Command-line Bugzilla Queries" HREF="cmdline.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Bugzilla Guide - 2.17.5 Development Release</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="patches.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix C. Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="cmdline.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="rewrite" ></A >C.1. Apache <TT CLASS="filename" >mod_rewrite</TT > magic</H1 ><P >Apache's <TT CLASS="filename" >mod_rewrite</TT > module lets you do some truly amazing things with URL rewriting. Here are a couple of examples of what you can do.</P ><P ></P ><OL TYPE="1" ><LI ><P >Make it so if someone types <TT CLASS="computeroutput" >http://www.foo.com/12345</TT > , Bugzilla spits back http://www.foo.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12345. Try setting up your VirtualHost section for Bugzilla with a rule like this:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > <VirtualHost 12.34.56.78> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)$ http://foo.bar.com/show_bug.cgi?id=$1 [L,R] </VirtualHost> </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></LI ><LI ><P >There are many, many more things you can do with mod_rewrite. Please refer to the mod_rewrite documentation at <A HREF="http://www.apache.org" TARGET="_top" >http://www.apache.org</A >. </P ></LI ></OL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="patches.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="cmdline.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="patches.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Command-line Bugzilla Queries</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >