URL mod rewrite help needed

modrewrite help

[diger]

Hello everyone,

Greetings.

I know only little about modrewrite. And this is not working.

Rewrite Rule ^view/music\.html$ index.php?loadpage=./lib/view.php&category=$1 [L]

Actual url: www.site.com/view/music.html

I don't know why this is not working. Can someone help me with this. I'll greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks

[jdMorgan]

Please tell us what the "category" is supposed to be -- show how the example URL is supposed to 'map' to the index.php variables.

Also, do you intend this one rule to support multiple 'categories'? If so, then we will need examples of the URLs and the proper script parameters for those URLs.

Jim

[diger]

Yeah the script is intended for multiple categories. Above scripts works without rewrite rule. Like

index.php?loadpage=./lib/view.php&category=music ->for music category
index.php?loadpage=./lib/view.php&category=finance -> for finance category

What the script do is list the articles of particular categories. These works without modrewrite. With modrewrite rule I only need to pass category variable to the script through .htaccess.

[jdMorgan]

In that case, use a pattern to detect <whatever>.html, and create a back-reference, putting <whatever> into variable $1 so you can use it in the substitution URL-path on the right. For example:

Rewrite Rule ^view/([^.]+)\.html$ index.php?loadpage=./lib/view.php&category=$1 [L]

Jim

[diger]

I guess it's working although the page template is not loading properly.

Thanks Jim

[jdMorgan]

Likely because you've used page-relative links in that template. Change the image/media, CSS, and external JavaScript links in that template from page-relative (e.g <img src="images/logo.gif"> ) to server-relative ( e.g. <img src="/images/logo.gif"> ) to fix this.

Alternatively, you can detect and rewrite the URLs to image, media, CSS, and JS includes to correct them, but this creates duplicate content.

Remember that it is the client (the browser) which resolves relative URLs. The client now thinks your page is located in the subdirectory /view, and all page-relative URLs will be resolved to that directory. You can check your server error and access logs to confirm this.

Jim