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I have the url /a/b/main/ID/name.ext; I'd like to grab the ID and convert it to an 8 byte hex value (16 digits). Then I would like to grab the file (assuming the id is 112233445566FF)

/main/00/11/22/33/44/55/66/FF/name.ext

In apache how do I convert the ID to 16 digit hex number and rewrite the url?

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I suspect that the easiest solution is to make a small script responsible for paths matching /a/b/main/ID/name.ext, and have it issue a redirect to the appropriate path.

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How would i do that? also, the solution should work with binary files that can be resumed and audio files that can seek (say a 6mb demo m4a) – acidzombie24 Jan 15 '11 at 21:52
i still have no idea how to do this. – acidzombie24 Jan 17 '11 at 1:59
You would need a script, that would take the original URL, split it into components, and rewrite it with the ID expanded. This should be easy in Python, Ruby, Perl, etc., and possible with /bin/sh (but I don't have recommend that). You would place this in your server's cgi-bin directory, then use a RewriteRule to redirect access to /a/b/main/ID/name.ext to your script. Your script would then issue a 302 response with a Location: header to redirect the client to the appropriate location. – larsks Jan 17 '11 at 19:46
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