Hi:

I was wondering if someone can help me with this rewrite rule im trying to set up.

Im running mod perl and in my apache httpd.conf file I have a handler define as 
<Location /profile>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler WEBCORE::Control::Profile->run
</Location>

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This works fine when the url is called as such $base_url/profile?f_id=$user_id

What I'd like to do is setup a url rewrite so I can call the profile with just $base_url/$user_id and have it map to $base_url/profile?f_id=$user_id.

I tried: 
RewriteEngine   On
RewriteRule     ^/(.*)$   /profile?f_id=$1 [R,L]

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but it just trys to look for the "profile" directory/file in the file structure. I read somewhere that I need to skip the file lookup using the "PerlTransHandler" phase but I cant seem to get it to work.

If I change the url slightly in the mod rewrite it works fine. If the rule is 
RewriteEngine   On
RewriteRule     ^/u/(.*)$   /profile?f_id=$1 [R,L]

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I can get to it with $base_url/u/$user_id just fine. Does anyone have any tips on where I should look? To reiterate I want the url to rewrite to a vanity url like $base_url/$user_id

In reply to mod rewrite on mod perl handler skip trans handler phase by Anonymous Monk

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