Mod_rewrite: clean solution is needed

Hi,

I am a newbie in scripting and I need to write a script
that will do exactly the following in functionality

#=====================================
RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^aaron$ /a/aaron/ [L]
RewriteRule ^aaron/$ /a/aaron/ [L]
RewriteRule ^andrew$ /a/andrew/ [L]
RewriteRule ^andrew/$ /a/andrew/ [L]
RewriteRule ^bruce$ /b/bruce/ [L]
RewriteRule ^bruce/$ /b/bruce/ [L]
..................
RewriteRule ^zack$ /z/zack/ [L]
RewriteRule ^zack/$ /z/zack/ [L]
#=====================================

Is there any way to simplify the above in a couple of lines of code?

There are a few thousand subdirectories that match the pattern above
All data is only located in the subdirectories on the second level,
the www directory looks like /home/mydomain/public_html/[a-z]/[names]

Thanks!

DgranD

On 26 Oct 2004 06:58:21 -0700, Support <dimag@my-deja.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie in scripting and I need to write a script
> that will do exactly the following in functionality
>
> #=====================================
> RewriteEngine on
>
> RewriteBase /
>
> RewriteRule ^aaron$ /a/aaron/ [L]
> RewriteRule ^aaron/$ /a/aaron/ [L]
> RewriteRule ^andrew$ /a/andrew/ [L]
> RewriteRule ^andrew/$ /a/andrew/ [L]
> RewriteRule ^bruce$ /b/bruce/ [L]
> RewriteRule ^bruce/$ /b/bruce/ [L]
> .................
> RewriteRule ^zack$ /z/zack/ [L]
> RewriteRule ^zack/$ /z/zack/ [L]
> #=====================================
>
> Is there any way to simplify the above in a couple of lines of code?

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^([a-z])([^/]*)/?$ $1/$1$2/ [L]

.... should work.

Grey

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GreyWyvern wrote:

> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteBase /
> RewriteRule ^([a-z])([^/]*)/?$ $1/$1$2/ [L]

Of course, that will also rewrite, for example, "abigail", even if there's
no such person.

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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 2241 +0100, Toby Inkster
<usenet200410@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> GreyWyvern wrote:
>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteBase /
>> RewriteRule ^([a-z])([^/]*)/?$ $1/$1$2/ [L]
>
> Of course, that will also rewrite, for example, "abigail", even if
> there's no such person.

Just needs a RewriteCond in there to check if $1/$1$2/ exists...

Grey