Serving Go Subpackages: Apache Woes

I decided to do what  Will Norris does and host my go packages and projects under evgenykuznetsov.org/go. Will has explained how to do it in great detail and it was rather easy to set everything up following his post. He doesn’t mention the go-source meta tag but it was very simple to figure out looking at the code of his pages, too.

I did run into one roadblock, though. The thing is, my website is served using Apache, not Nginx, so I had to figure out the rewriting part. I ended up with a rather unelegant solution:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^go-get=1$
RewriteRule ^(go/[^/]+)/.+ $1 [QSD,L]

I spent about two hours trying to make it work without QSD (that is a rather dirty hack in this context; it makes Apache drop the ?go-get=1 part upon rewriting) but I couldn’t figure it out. I’d get endless redirects on something like /go/changelog/?go-get=1 back to itself. Why? No idea, maybe someone with more knowledge of .htaccess fu can shed some light…