Re: Perl file names and extensions

[nite_man]

Let's see how do it with mod_perl (example from mod_perl documentation):
This is an URL on website -

http://example.com/news/20021031/09/index.html

but you need convert it as

http://example.com/perl/news.pl?date=20021031&id=09&page=index.html

You can use for that simple mod_perl handler:

package MyApache::RewriteURI;
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  use Apache::RequestRec ();
  
  use Apache::Const -compile => qw(DECLINED);
  
  sub handler {
      my $r = shift;
  
      my($date, $id, $page) = $r->uri =~ m|^/news/(\d+)/(\d+)/(.*)|;
      $r->uri("/perl/news.pl");
      $r->args("date=$date&id=$id&page=$page");
  
      return Apache::DECLINED;
  }
  1;

Also, you should add in http.conf:

PerlTransHandler +MyApache::RewriteURI

So, first URL is easier to understand for user than second. Also, based on this you can create something like selector to process and redirect HTTP requests according your rules.