Mod_Rewrite Mod Possible? - Overhead?

[medisave]

Hello Im thinking of getting a mod written that will allow in admin for each category and product the ability to add an html reference

 

such as in my blood pressure section I can then add:

 

blood_pressure.htm

 

Then I rewrite every box, HREF for category and product in the code to check whether the section or product has a htm entered - if so it rewrites the link to: example

 

www.medisave.net/blood_pressure.htm

 

If no link is entered for that section or product then it will return the standard link.

 

In my httpd.conf I then add all of my mod_rewrites:

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^blood_pressure.htm /default.php?cPath=50

 

(Try it on the url above it works nice!)

 

This can also be done within .htaccess but I believe there is less of an overhead if you put them directly into httpd.conf?? Anyone know apache well confirm this?

 

If we can get this mod working them I plan to put about a 1000 entries into httpd.conf - do you think the overhead will be ok?

 

The mod is beyond me - do you think it would be difficult? Im sure alot of people could make use of this - then we are not going to have a problem with search engines!!

 

Can anyone think of any possible problems - such as seesion IDs? Cookies etc before I look into this more?

 

I think I will have to wire the system with hpld - force cookies as with this system I can never allow a sid to be added you can read more here:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php...der=asc&start=0

 

OR make the mod to do an extra check and when the user has logged on and sids are started to be appended - just make everything point back to the old PHP URLS. With the sid killer I have installed the search engines will never see the sid so will only see the htm replacement links at all times??

 

What do you reckon - sound like a good plan ?

 

Cheers,