Latest URL for all your NanoBlogger websites.

Tue Mar 9 20:39:46 EST 2010

So I kinda participate a lot in these community forums and I wanted to keep my signature linking to my latest post without having to change my signature on all of them each time, I created this script that will get the latest entry submitted and will create a .htaccess file redirecting requests to a previous determined directory to the latest entry.

#!/bin/bash
DocummentRoot="/var/www/linuxevolution.org/htdocs /var/www/orvtech.com/htdocs"

for virtualhost in $DocummentRoot
do cat $virtualhost/rss.xml  | grep link | grep archives |\
head -n1 | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba' |\
awk '{print "RewriteEngine on\nRewriteRule (.*) "$0" [R=301,L]"}' > $virtualhost/latest/.htaccess
done

In order for this to work you will have to create the 'latest' directory inside your root directory or modify the script.

In my case I have 2 websites, and this script keeps the '/latest/' directory pointing to the latest entry on each of them (http://linuxevolution.org/latest and http://orvtech.com/latest the spanish version of this website)

Spanish version: Un CGI en BASH para mantener tu firma al dia en todos los foros en que participas.