PHP & HTACCESS for semi-dynamic content

[stidj]

Hi guys. This is my first post here.

I'm currently using an htaccess redirect to my index.php which automatically includes any html file. My problem is that the relative path is always '/' so if I go to site.com/dir/page.htm and in page.htm I have a reference to "image.jpg" it assumes the true path is '/image.jpg' forcing me to use absolute links in every case which I would like to avoid.

The only solution I can think of, which I don't like is to use PHP and parse $REQUEST_URI and use the PHP function that changes the current working directory.

Does anyone know a way to still redirect to the script below but have the current working directory be whatever is in $REQUEST_URI?

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule!\.(gif¦jpg¦png¦css)$ /home/virtual/site187/fst/var/www/html/index.php

[gethan]

Hi Stidj

Firstly welcome to WebmasterWorld.

From what I understand of your problem the rule you would require using mod_rewrite would be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule!\.(gif¦jpg¦png¦css¦php)$ /index.php

The php needs to be there to stop a recursive rule - eg. request for index.php are rewritten to index.php and on...

Your other option is to use a handler for all files of a certain extension - eg. .html

Action default /index.php
AddHandler default .html

You'll have to come up with something for the directories but should set you on the right path.

HTH

[stidj]

Thanks gethan but I have already basically set things up but they aren't the way I want them to be.

Since the rewrite rule goes to /home/virtual/site187/fst/var/www/html/index.php

the relative dir is always / and I don't like that
because if you go to /access/index.html

I would like the relative dir to always be whatever dir is referred to in $REQUEST_URI

if a link in index.html refers to "image.jpg" it looks for it in /image.jpg but I would like it to work so it looks in the REQUEST URI for the link. So in this case the relative link should be in "/access/image.jpg" instead of the way it currently works "/image.jpg"

Do you guys know a simple way around this?

I have also noticed there is no trailing slash automatically added now that I use htaccess. If I don't use htaccess my server does automatically add the trailing slash so I'm not sure what to do about this.