.htaccess not working for some reason

[black-ops]

Okay, it could be the fact that i'm not the best with dealing with .htaccess files
however my general site path is as follows:

index.php?page=index

where further modules can be assigned like so:

index.php?page=index/category/id

it even works for

index.php?page=index/category/sub-category/id

Now i've got the PHP which sorts this fine, works a charm, but I need to get rid of index.php?page=$1

I've tried

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1

But to no avail it doesn't seem to be working at all. Any ideas ?

I really need it to display

http://www.site.com/index/category/id
instead of the long windedness

Regards

 

[sharkkk]

Add the [R] flag to the end of the rule so you can see where rules are sending you, might help you find a solution!

I think (my mod_rewrite skills leave a little to be desired..) that your problem is that your rewrite will get stuck in a loop;

user visits site.x/index/category/id
/index/category/id matches ^(.*)$
redirect to index.php?page=/index/category/id
but thenn...
index.php?page=/index/category/id matches ^(.*)$
redirect to index.php?page=index.php?page=/index/category/id
... and so on, or something dumb like that

ANYWAY
try

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?page=$1 [L]

This is similar, but won't execute the rule if the page being requested is an actual file or directory. This stops loops and will let you do things like request a CSS file correctly; if you tried to do that before the rule would catch it and run it through index.php!

 

[black-ops]

Add the [R] flag to the end of the rule so you can see where rules are sending you, might help you find a solution!

I think (my mod_rewrite skills leave a little to be desired..) that your problem is that your rewrite will get stuck in a loop;

user visits site.x/index/category/id
/index/category/id matches ^(.*)$
redirect to index.php?page=/index/category/id
but thenn...
index.php?page=/index/category/id matches ^(.*)$
redirect to index.php?page=index.php?page=/index/category/id
... and so on, or something dumb like that

ANYWAY
try

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php?page=$1 [L]

This is similar, but won't execute the rule if the page being requested is an actual file or directory. This stops loops and will let you do things like request a CSS file correctly; if you tried to do that before the rule would catch it and run it through index.php!

Brilliant, it didn't work all the time for some reason, but after a bit more research I tried this and it seemed to have done the job.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [PT,L]