Question

have all ajax in ../ajax directory and all xmlRequest urls starting with a dot, eg,

http://company.com/.call?arg=val

would be rewritten as

../call.php?arg=val

was using handler in php to do the job, but would much rather simply use apache

mod rewrite.load enabled

Answer 1

You are not quite consistent with what file path you want rewritten to something else. I am going to assume that you have a file, call.php, located in the “ajax” folder (domain.com/ajax/call.php) and you want this to be called with domain.com/.call

Assuming you have activated the rewrite engine, and know where to put rewrite rules, the appropriate rewrite rule for what you want would look like this:

RewriteRule ^\.([aA-zZ0-9]+)(.*)$ ajax/$1.php$2

This rewrites anything prefixed with a “.” to the ajax-folder and suffixes it with “.php”. Additionally, arguments are intact.