Apache :: Conversion of internal links to correct URL

lugovsa · Joined: 22 Aug 2014 Posts: 3 Location: Israil

A dynamic php+mySQL site was converted to a static html by mirroring (wget). The result was that each page became an html file named some-page.html. The links direct to URI like http://sitename/some-page. The site is large (more than 10,000 pages after the conversion) and changing each link manually is a crazy job. I tried to use the rewrite_rules in the .access file of the root directory of the site. Many attempts have been made, but all in vain. My last 'genious' idea was like that:

glsmith

You forgot to calculate in that the browser is being told to go to http://sitename and not http://your-sitename, so no, I doubt any rewrite would work.

Two option:
1. write a script in any number of scripting languages that goes through each .html file and strips out http://sitename or replaces it with http://your-sitename.

2. and probably easiest, use mod_substitute for that site.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_substitute.html

I do hope you have permission to mirror this site and are not just stealing it and maybe making it look like yours.

lugovsa · Joined: 22 Aug 2014 Posts: 3 Location: Israil

Thanks for hoping that I am not necessarily a thief, I do appreciate it. It is always a pleasure to feel that the world consists not only of over-suspecting persons having no confidence to anyone but also from some kind Samaritans ready to admit that there are some honest people. Confused

I might have not explained it clearly enough, but the sitename and the my-sitename are the same domain. It is my site, my domain and my ten years of work (I mean its content). I do make use of scripts of many kinds , but I am no programmer and this was the main reason to ask for help.

Thank you, anyway.

glsmith

Good, I've just seen it before.

Really though, have a look at mod_substitue, you won't have to change anything in the files, the server will do the work.

something like

lugovsa · Joined: 22 Aug 2014 Posts: 3 Location: Israil

It's not that.

The problem is that instead of a URL, say, 'http://sitename/pagename.html' it has just a 'pagename' (no 'http://...' and no '.html'). That is, if I am trying to use such a substitution, I will have the server to replace ANYTHING. Some links are correct and the substitution for them would result in the obtaining of doublets like 'http://sitenamehttp://sitename/pagename.html.html'

I need first to check if a URL is not correct (doesn't start with 'http://' and doesn't end with '.html') and only then to substitute.