URL rewriting causing page layout errors

[hybridization]

Hello,

New here and would love some help.

I am trying to rewrite a url, and I got it to work, but it looks like all the CSS formatting disappers when I do so.

This is what I have in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/?$ file.php?val1=$1&val2=$2 [L]

which outputs this url

www.mysite.com/value1/value2

When I navigate to that page, all the formatting is gone. Do I need to add or remove something from the .htaccess?

Thanks a lot.

-Chris

[ag_47]

file.php is linking to a .css file relative to the directory it's in, which ISNT /value1/value2/.
In other words it's looking for say "index.css" somewhere in /value1/value2/.

In file.php, add a / (slash) to the css include:

<link type="text/css" href="/styles/index.css" rel="stylesheet" />

Assuming www.site.com/styles/index.css

[hybridization]

my style sheet is in my root folder, along with file.php.

value1 and value two are not directories, they are variables that are dynamically generated on the output page.

i.e. www.mysite.com/file.php?val1=free-phone&val2=chicago

becomes

www.mysite.com/free-phone/chicago

and "free phone" and "chicago" appear on the output page.

[ag_47]

Exactly. That's why the stylesheet is not found, because these folder don't exist.
Just add a / in front of the stylesheet link (no other changes), that's all you need.

[hybridization]

Gotcha.

Thanks a lot for that, it worked!