Rewrite Problem

passing incorrect info

[WhosAWhata]

i have the following .htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^login.php(.*)$
RewriteRule (.*) login.php?page=$1

if i access something like addArticle.php and echo the $page variable in login.php it says login.php

[jdMorgan]

A pattern error in the RewriteCond may be causing the rule to always match. Try this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/login.php
RewriteRule (.*) login.php?page=$1 [L]

Jim

[WhosAWhata]

it didn't fix it

i changed the [L] to [R=301] to see what variable was being passed through the address bar

it started a loop between login.php?page=login.php and addArticle.php

[WhosAWhata]

as you can see, not only did it cause a loop, the login.php?page still =login.php

[jdMorgan]

Well then, login.php must not be in your web root directory, so remove the start anchor from the RewriteCond pattern:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/login\.php
RewriteRule (.*) login.php?page=$1 [L]

If that doesn't work, then you've got some other rule or script doing another redirect that is interering with this one.

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:49 am (utc) on July 4, 2004]

[jdMorgan]

Also, check to be sure the $page variable is the correct one to reference in your script. I'm not familiar with the php variables, but I think your script should be checking the query string, not the requested page.

Jim

[WhosAWhata]

i found the errors, thanks

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!/login\.php
RewriteRule (.*) login.php?page=$1 [L]

as per your suggestion
i noticed neither of us had done this (it was causing the loop -until your last one)

[WhosAWhata]

P.S.

how do you get the space between the } and! chars? i have tried [pre] and [code]

[jdMorgan]

Type *two* spaces... :)