Mod rewrite 2.2 to 1.3 Question

Backwards Compatibililty

[ioanik]

** SOLVED **

I have written a mod_rewrite for my cms it works on apache 2.2 but when I upload it to a server that is using 1.3 it no longer works and it doesnt work on my localhost when I run apache 1.3 I cannot seem to find the problem with this....here is the rewrite code

# ERROR DOCUMENTATIONS
ErrorDocument 404 /dev/index.php?page=404
# START REWRITE ENGINE
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
# GAME FILTER PARSER
# These will only be called one time we dont catergorize 
# games as http://site.com/game/etc we set a cookie for that
# Game Filter 
RewriteRule ^game_filter/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=game_filter&game_id=$1 [L]
# Main 
RewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z-_0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L] 
# News 
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?p=$1 [NC,L] 
RewriteRule ^news/([A-Za-z]+)?$ index.php?page=news&func=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^news/view_news/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=news&func=view_news&news_id=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^news/post_comments/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=news&func=post_comments&news_id=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^news/post_comments/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=news&func=post_comments&news_id=$1&quote_id=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^news/view_news/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=news&func=view_news&news_id=$1&p=$2 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^news/delete_comment/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=news&func=delete_comment&comment_id=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^news/delete_comment/([0-9]+)/1?$ index.php?page=news&func=delete_comment&comment_id=$1&confirm=1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^news/edit_comment/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=news&func=edit_comment&comment_id=$1 [NC,L]
# User
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z_]+)?$ index.php?page=user&func=$1 [NC,L]
# Shows a user login with username prefilled :)
RewriteRule ^user/login/([0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=user&func=login&userid=$1 [L]
## Account Validation
RewriteRule ^user/validate_account/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z-_0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=user&func=validate_account&userid=$1&validation=$2 [NC,L]
# Profile Views They are done By two ways CLan Members and Regular users CM = /players Users = /members
RewriteRule ^users/members/(.*)?$ index.php?page=profile&user=$1 [NC,L] 
RewriteRule ^users/players/(A-Z0-9_-]+)?$ index.php?page=profile&user=$1 [NC,L] 
# Roster
# Matches
# Forums

[edited by: ioanik at 12:46 pm (utc) on July 8, 2008]

[g1smd]

Describe "does not work".

What should it have done?

What did it actually do?

How does that differ from what was expected?

What were the test URLs (use example.com for all)?

[ioanik]

I have found the answer...

It seems that 1.3 is not as friendly when it comes to regex mistakes....

if you look at line
RewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z-_0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
and
RewriteRule ^user/validate_account/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z-_0-9]+)?$ index.php?page=user&func=validate_account&userid=$1&validation=$2 [NC,L]

the - needs to be escaped....simple fix :)

And i was getting a 500 Internal Error