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In general it seems like a good strategy. Keep in mind apache rewrite minutae. I think if you get rid of the directory rewrite, the following /may not/ work:

https://w3id.org/people/bsletten <--- works
https://w3id.org/people/bsletten/ <--- might not work?

The second is only a problem if the following was also desired functionality:

https://w3id.org/people/bsletten/pets/loki

So, you may want to firm up the rules such that:

1. IF there is an entry in /people/.htaccess for the person, AND
2. there is a /people/DIR/.htaccess file, AND
3. the /people/DIR/.htaccess only contains one rewrite rule for ^$, THEN throw an error

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No objection, here, Brian.

Regards,

Dave

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On Jan 4, 2016, at 09:53, Manu Sporny [email protected] wrote:

In general it seems like a good strategy. Keep in mind apache rewrite minutae. I think if you get rid of the directory rewrite, the following /may not/ work:

https://w3id.org/people/bsletten <--- works
https://w3id.org/people/bsletten/ <--- might not work?

The second is only a problem if the following was also desired functionality:

https://w3id.org/people/bsletten/pets/loki

So, you may want to firm up the rules such that:

IF there is an entry in /people/.htaccess for the person, AND
there is a /people/DIR/.htaccess file, AND
the /people/DIR/.htaccess only contains one rewrite rule for ^$, THEN throw an error
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Upon further reflection, I am unconvinced this should be an error, maybe just a warning. I'm not sure I'll know what is new and what isn't. If we have a scenario like you describe above and you edit something, I am not sure I'll know whether you are attempting something new or editing something existent. Without having access to the account that created the URL and the account doing the edit, I don't know that I can resolve the two scenarios so a warning might get our attention. But, if we have existing versions like we have, the warning will be firing all the time and will therefore be useless. I'm going to have to noodle on this some more.

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