Condition with map

[summer]

I'm trying to write a rule that says if you can't find a file by the name of the URI then look it up in the rewrite map. but it's not working. Here's what I have so far:

RewriteMap products txt:/data/www/root/htaccess.txt

RewriteCond !/{REQUEST_URI} -f [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*)$ /products/detail.php?ProductID=${products:$1} [L]

Any ideas? the condition worked fine when I applied a moer simple rule to it like this:

RewriteCond !/{REQUEST_URI} -f [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*)$ /filenotnoud.html [L]

thanks
summer

[iiinetworks]

You may want to change the [L] to [L,R]. Then you will be able to see what it's doing. You can always change it back after you get things working.

I tried using a rewrite map at one point. What I found was that it worked better to rewrite the PHP file so that it would process the URI. E.g.

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RewriteRule /(.*)$ /products/detail.php?URI=$1 [L,R]

Inside, you would use something of form

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/* Lookup map from URI to ProductID */
$_GET['ProductID'] = /* whatever */;

to get the same effect. Replace parts in /* */ appropriately.

Hth,
Matt