End-all be-all working way for shorter SigGen URLS!

Allows you to use

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http://www.site.com/roster/MODE/Name@US-Realm.EXT

Replace MODE with the config setting (IE. signature | avatar)
Replace Name@US-Realm with the character's name region and realm
Replace EXT with the extension (IE. png | gif | jpg)

This only allows for the signature and avatar SigGen config designs
If you added other designs, you have to add them in the .htaccess file

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RewriteRule ^/?(signature|avatar|anotherconfig|more|purple)/(.*)

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Of course mod_rewrite needs to be enabled and working on your server!

Edit Roster's .htaccess file
After

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   # ENABLE ENGINE
   RewriteEngine On

Add

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   # SIGEN REWRITE
   RewriteRule ^/?(signature|avatar)/(.*)\.(.*)$ /index.php?p=util-siggen-$1&member=$2&format=$3

So the entire file looks like this

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# WoWRoster .htaccess file
# $Id: .htaccess 1254 2007-08-19 16:41:28Z Zanix $

# ONLY IF MOD_REWRITE IS INSTALLED
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   # ENABLE ENGINE
   RewriteEngine On
   
   # SIGEN REWRITE
   RewriteRule ^/?(signature|avatar)/(.*)\.(.*)$ /index.php?p=util-siggen-$1&member=$2&format=$3

   # CONIDITIONS
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

   # REWRITE RULES
   RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
   RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
</IfModule>


I use the following one to make it even shorter...

My roster is located in site_url/r2 and I can call

the signature with:

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site_url/r2/sig/Name.png

the avatar with:

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site_url/r2/ava/Name.png

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# WoWRoster .htaccess file
# $Id: .htaccess 1254 2007-08-19 16:41:28Z Zanix $

# ONLY IF MOD_REWRITE IS INSTALLED
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   # ENABLE ENGINE
   RewriteEngine On

   # SIGEN REWRITE
        RewriteRule ^/?sig/(.*).png$ /r2/index.php?p=util-siggen&mode=signature&member=$1
        RewriteRule ^/?ava/(.*).png$ /r2/index.php?p=util-siggen&mode=avatar&member=$1

   # CONDITIONS
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

   # REWRITE RULES
   RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
   RewriteRule ^(.*) /r2/index.php
</IfModule>



But to be honest MOD_Rewrite is Chinese to me, could someone explain the "Conditions" and "Rewrite Rules"? Don't post a link to MOD_REWRITE reference guide , I can google my-self.

I do understand the 2 rewrite rules I added, but the other ones, even with the reference guide next to me, hmmm...

I don't quite understand it either, but I know that these rewrite rules transform

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http://www.site.com/roster/guild/memberslist.html

Into

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http://www.site.com/roster/index.php?p=guild-memberslist

And

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http://www.site.com/roster/char/info/a=c:2.html

Into

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http://www.site.com/roster/index.php?p=char-info&a=c:2

These allow shorter Roster URLs as well, just enable Alternative URLs in RosterCP and all the links in Roster will look like this

No they don't. They just tell apache to let an url like

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http://www.site.com/roster/guild/memberslist.html

that doesn't match a file be handled by

$www_root/roster/index.php

The rest of the translation logic is in PHP.

I see this is for normal Roster. It seems the short does not work in the DF format or any of them when I do a copy & paste of the link into the avatar field in DF.

Nope
The rewrite rule needs to be different for DF

For DF you would just need to fix the url used for the images like so

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# SIGEN REWRITE
   RewriteRule ^/?(signature|avatar)/(.*)\.(.*)$ /index.php?name=WoWRosterDF&p=util-siggen-$1&member=$2&format=$3

Thanks well do

Where can I change the long link displayed in the SigGen page.

I want change it from

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http://domain.com/index.php?p=util-siggen-avatar&a=c:340&member=Player@Realm

http://domain.com/index.php?p=util-siggen-signature&a=c:340&member=Player@Realm

to the saved image by uploading the CharacterProfiler.lua

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http://domain.com/saved/Avatar-player.png and
http://domain.com/saved/Signature-player.png

because my host do not allow the .htacess, and the long link is not accepted in forums as a valid image.

This was easy in 1.7.3 but in 2.0 I don't know how.

There is a setting in SigGen Config
I don't recall the exact name, and I don't have the current version of SigGen running on my server at the moment

ah, I didnt see that option before, but I have to remove the @ in some lines in siggen.php and char/index.php because the browser returns a 404 error.

The file that actually displays the links is siggen/char/index.php

Hrm,

I had this working, but after the updated siggen went in, it doesnt want to work anymore.

I have this in my htaccess

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        # SIGEN REWRITE
        RewriteRule ^/?sig/(.*).png$ /r2/index.php?p=util-siggen&mode=signature&member=$1
        RewriteRule ^/?ava/(.*).png$ /r2/index.php?p=util-siggen&mode=avatar&member=$1


Make sure you can access the images directly and that you are not getting an error

Feature request: add a setting with a pair of regex values that replaces the canonical sig/avatar URL with a "short" URL and then use that in the member's siggen page. This allows members to easily get the short URL for their image by right-clicking it on the siggen page and copying the URL.

What's needed is essentially the reverse of the mod_rewrite rule.