URL concatenating with each click

htaccess concatenation problem

[ianao]

Hi

Trying to get my head around .htaccess for SEO friendly URLs.

My problem is that with each subsequent click the old URL stays more or less intact, and the new part is added to the end.

My .htaccess file looks like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/slug(.*)\.php$ page.php?pageID=$1&slug=$2 [L]


and my PHP extract looks like this:

$navpagelist.="<li><a href=\"page/".$rownavpages["pageID"]."/slug/".$rownavpages["slug"].".php\">".ucfirst($rownavpages["pagename"])."</a></li>";

So click 1 gives me:
page/1/slug/about-us.php

click2 gives me:
page/1/slug/page/1/slug/about-us.php

click3 gives me:
page/1/slug/page/1/slug/page/1/slug/about-us.php

I guess it might be a '.' or '/' too many (or too little), but I can't seem to get around it.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks

[g1smd]

Start the link with

href="/

You need to use root-relative links, not page relative links, from now on.

Now would also be a good time to "go extensionless". You don't really need that ".php" bit in the URL do you?

[ianao]

Hi g1smd.

I managed to get it working with your help.

Thanks so much!