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Asked: 2026-05-11T18:54:04+00:00

Im developing a new site, and I’d like to store my rewrite rules in

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Im developing a new site, and I’d like to store my rewrite rules in a database, instead of right in the .htaccess files.

I have another site that uses Opensef (http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensef/) with a Joomla! installation that is doing this, but im not even 100% how it works underneath the hood.

How can I store these rules in a database, query for them on request and rediret to the clean URL if found? Is there a better way to do this instead of loading up a .htaccess file (there may be 1000’s of entries)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can get mod_rewrite to generate a map from external source such as executing a PHP or Python file which can get the data from the database and create a mod_rewrite map.

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
    (See right at the bottom)

    For example

    RewriteMap    quux-map       prg:/path/to/map.quux.pl

    Good Luck

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