And today, for my first trick (yes, it is my first trick, but my second post today), I shall transform this URL:
http://www.freshports.org/news/pan2/files.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org

into
http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org&category=news&port=pan2&files=yes

Why? Because it is impolite to break existing URLs. It is far better to redirect them to the new improved content.
Our documentation for today’s exercise shall be http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteRule.
Our first attempt at fixing […]

I was getting a lot of these queries:
[Thu Nov 9 00:40:34 2006] [error] [client 72.36.202.166] File does not exist: /www/freshports.org/modules/coppermine/themes/coppercop/theme.php
[Thu Nov 9 00:40:34 2006] [error] [client 204.157.11.250] File does not exist: /www/freshports.org/modules/coppermine/themes/coppercop/theme.php
[Thu Nov 9 00:40:36 2006] [error] [client 213.148.16.7] File does not exist: /www/freshports.org/modules/coppermine/themes/coppercop/theme.php
[Thu Nov 9 00:40:37 2006] [error] [client 72.29.68.123] […]