According to URL [1], I would like to hind the file path value in the map variable using apache .htaccess RewriteRule. Based on discussions [2] and [3], I want to keep the same URL as in [1], but hind the file path as in [4]. My first attempt is:
RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?map=/home/qgis/project/$1 [NC, QSA]
[1] http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?MAP=/home/qgis/project/qgisdatapostgis.qgs
[4] http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?MAP=qgisdatapostgis.qgs
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Hello,
If I understand correctly want to rewrite the URL to hide the file path in the map parameter, is that right?
You can update your RewriteRule to achieve this.
The RewriteRule can be added to your .htaccess file and it would look like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^MAP=([A-Za-z0-9]+)\.qgs$
RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv\.fcgi$ /cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?MAP=/home/qgis/project/%1.qgs [L]
These rules will rewrite the URL http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?MAP=qgisdatapostgis.qgs to http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?MAP=/home/qgis/project/qgisdatapostgis.qgs internally while keeping the original URL in the browser.
Now, when you access http://localhost/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi?MAP=qgisdatapostgis.qgs, Apache should rewrite the URL internally to include the full file path while keeping the short URL visible in the browser
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