mod rewrite help

[mealybar]

I did a bit with mod rewrite a while back with your help on here :) cheers, just having a few problems second time round :s

I want [url.com...] (and other query string from blah/-> onwards) to go to [url.com...] ('/b-gen/' or other args). My Blah message forum can handle these args, just I cant get my mod rewrite to work. Also idealy I'd like [url.com...] to replace [url.com...] eventually, but anything that works is a starter :)

I've got this;

Options All Indexes
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum
RewriteRule ^(.*) /forum/blah/Blah.pl?$1

I know some extra folder bits are needed in either the first part of rewrite rule or the base (havent had experience with using base), but I've tried a few combinations with no luck. Also have tried putting this htacess in each different folder; root/forum/blah - no luck.

Thanks in advance :)

[jdMorgan]

Get rid of RewriteBase unless you're using aliased pathnames.

.htaccess in Web root directory:

RewriteEngine On
# Prevent rewrite looping
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum/blah/Blah\.pl
# Rewrite to Blah.pl with requested filename in query string
RewriteRule ^forum/blah(.*)$ /forum/blah/Blah.pl?$1 [L]

For more information, see the documents cited in our forum charter [webmasterworld.com] and the tutorials in the Apache forum section of the WebmasterWorld library [webmasterworld.com].

Jim

[mealybar]

and that gets put in the root folder? Ifso is it ok to be added just after my other htaccess stuff in there?

cheers :)

[jd01]

Yes, and it should be fine, as long as you don't have any other rules that conflict with the ones you are adding. (You will not need RewriteEngine on again.)

Justin