mod_rewrite apache

wifiED · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 13 Location: South Africa

Hey Guys

Wonder if anyone will be able to assist me.

I am wanting to strip the tailing characters from a file name (file.pdf?abcdefhekjkjhsdhsd) so that apache just serves the plain file name (file.pdf)
Can anyone help with a quick way to do it using mod_rewrite in apache?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

elgato319 · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 546

mod_rewrite is not responsible for this.
The appliction that generates the urls needs to be altered.

wifiED · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 13 Location: South Africa

Hi there

Thanks but yes i am aware of that. But the reason for this is that the application generates a unique tail on the file so that it no.1 doesnt get cached and no.2 is able to keep track of the unique downloads.

scherz0 · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 154

cach0rr0 · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject:

i can help with the regex, cant say whether or not this is an appropriate solution

at least in perl or whatnot it'd be something like