( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Apr 29 2008
This book is perfect for programmers AND webmasters! Before reading this book I had very limited knowledge of what mod rewrite was or how it worked. After I finished it I was able to: 1. Make search engine friendly URLs (dynamically generated by my site) work. 2. Block bad bots and remote file inclusion attempts. 3. Rename pages or move them seamlessly. I would recommend this book to anyone, it was easy to understand even from the point of view of someone just starting out.
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Posted: Oct 10 2007
The freely available online documentation for mod_rewrite is a great deal more "definitive" than this book could ever hope to be, but it's also a great deal more difficult to navigate and read. This book is considerably more human friendly and un-man-page-like, and even if it doesn't contain a specific solution for your particular problem, it will at least point you in the right direction so you have some general idea of where to look in the official docs.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 21 2007
I was very disappointed with this book. The information inside is so basic and cursory that you're bound to quickly run into situations more advanced than the contents can cover. For instance, it doesn't deal at all with using a rewritemap within a rewritecond, and it only gives one small paragraph to rewritecond backreferences. I've spent the last few weeks scouring the internet for details about mod_rewrite, and there's very little documentation. This book, at most, aggregates that documentation in one place. To call it the "definitive guide" is a bit much.
