redo missing.php so everything acts off rewrite not ErrorDocument

[dlangille]

Moved here from dlangille/freshports#5

At present, each port and category uses this method for providing content:

ErrorDocument 404 /missing.php

Let's change that by doing a rewrite to start with so every URL goes to missing.php (for example).

[dlangille]

Trying:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /--/index.php/$1 [PT,L,QSA]

Thus, the script at /--/index.php gets everything it needs, but actual files cannot be fetched, e.g. /images/bug.gif

[dlangille]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache was recommended as a starting point. It works better. Now using:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/--/index.php [L]

Instead of letting the system check for existing file and directories, it might be easier to just ignore specific files and directories... i.e. less syscalls. This suggestion courtesy of Colin Percival.

[dlangille]

This is not yet in production.

[dlangille]

Moving to production now...

[dlangille]

Now on production. Seems OK.