Somebody PLEASE HELP ME!!! I have just discovered my webhost (Namesco) is using ZEUS servers instead of Apache. I was looking for Linux hosting and I have automaticaly assumed that if they offer 2 types of hosting, one would have to be Windows on IIS (which it is) and the other one Linux on Apache servers. Well, guess what? It's on ZEUS!

I’ve no idea how to modify the .htaccess file to make SE friendly URLs work with ZEUS. The mod_rewrite is an Apache module and all I know is that I have to use rewrite.script file instead of .htaccess file on ZEUS. I have tried to use the apache-to-zeus rewrite conversion tool, but I'm getting errors which I can't fix. I have tried to ask people on drupal.org forum but I got no reply at all.

The SEO URL contribution with the rewrite rules in question is made for osCommerce. If there was anyone who could translate the rules into ones that ZEUS can understand, he would help many dissapointed people and be celebrated all over the world until the end of time
Server OS: Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp
HTTP Server: Zeus/4.3
Please help us if you can. The Apache rules from .htaccess are as follows:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index.php?cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-(.*).html$ index.php?manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-(.*).html$ popup_image.php?pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-t-(.*).html$ articles.php?tPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-a-(.*).html$ article_info.php?articles_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-(.*).html$ product_reviews.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-(.*).html$ product_reviews_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-(.*).html$ information.php?info_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^(.*)-links-(.*).html$ links.php?lPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...iting+&spell=1
First result...

know that a lot of people that use the Zeus web server are forced into it by their hosting companies (I personally use and love it on its own merits but that's out of place here). Drupal also has some really great styles that make clean URLs very nice and very short. But without support for mod_rewrite in Zeus, you can't use them, until now. I've converted the newest (4.6-newest) rewrite rules into a Zeus rewrite script. I've actually had this for quite a while and never got around to posting it.

http://drupal.org/node/46508

Basically, you need to translate the rules in a Zeus script, and to put them into the administration console of the server.
Now, the question is: Do you have access to the console ?

If not, ask your host, maybe they have a spare machine with apache, and they could move your site on it.

Hi tripy! Thank you for your reply.

I’ve visited both the links before I posted here. Like I have said in this forum some time ago, I only ask for help after I’ve exhausted all other options.

I don’t think I need the access to the console. I could put the rules into a file named “rewrite.script”. I have also asked my host for help. Their “help” would cost me £40 an hour and they didn’t even specify how many hours it would take them to convert it. That is ridiculous if you ask me.

My problem is that I simply do not understand the drupal script (or whatever it is). I have read something about drupal or ZEUS not being able to read from variables or queries (or something like that), which means that a simple conversion from:

RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}

into:

match URL into $ with ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$
if matched then
   set URL =product_info.php?products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
endif

won’t do the trick. I’ve also no idea how to convert

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /

although I believe “RewriteEngine On” doesn’t need converting as ZEUS doesn’t use an equivalent.

I am sure there are many skilled programmers who could convert these rules comfortably within minutes.

If one of them reads this post, could you please help me? I would post the translation to osCommerce forum and all the credit will go to you.

Hi
Have you found any solution to this.
I am also sailing in same boat and have no clue.
Let me know.
Thanks