mod_rewrite tutorial

robc123 · 11 Mar 2006 at 21:07

Hello, just wondered if anyone knows of any good tutorials about mod_rewrite in regards to url rewriting.

Trying to work out how to change pages linked from the index

www.url.com/index.php?page=Contact

to something like

www.url.com/page/Contact

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Rob

Beansprout · 11 Mar 2006 at 21:12

mod_rewrite cheat sheet to the rescue! :cool:

Third example down should give you something to get started with

I must get around to printing these things out, I'm sure that's what they were designed for

robc123 · 11 Mar 2006 at 22:25

cheers mate, works a treat

robc123 · 11 Mar 2006 at 23:55

Right, further to the question above.

I have tested

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

on local machine running apache and it runs perfectly!

Uploaded it to Web Mania hosting and it doesnt work. Is there any reason it wouldnt work?

They apparently believe there is no problem at their end.

any ideas?

robmiller · 12 Mar 2006 at 01:09

robc123 said:
Right, further to the question above.

I have tested

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

on local machine running apache and it runs perfectly!

Uploaded it to Web Mania hosting and it doesnt work. Is there any reason it wouldnt work?

They apparently believe there is no problem at their end.

any ideas?

Case sensitivity perhaps? Windows isn't case sensitive, most other OSs are. Check you've not uploaded Index.php/index.PHP/whatever.

Beansprout · 12 Mar 2006 at 01:51

Hmm, do they allow mod_rewrite & RewriteEngine? I'd be pretty certain they do as normally you get a 500 Internal Server Error when .htaccess is fudged up.

robc123 · 12 Mar 2006 at 10:54

The case is definitely right

I receive a 404 error.

I will contact them about the Rewrite Engine

robc123 · 12 Mar 2006 at 12:09

Spoke to Web-Mania. Apparently there is a problem with the .htaccess file and not their service.

Beansprout · 12 Mar 2006 at 12:24

By 'not work' - what actually happens?

Also, is the directory structure the same - ie, is the .htaccess file in Apache's root and are you requesting "/something", not "/folder/something", etc?

robc123 · 12 Mar 2006 at 12:44

Beansprout said:
By 'not work' - what actually happens?

Also, is the directory structure the same - ie, is the .htaccess file in Apache's root and are you requesting "/something", not "/folder/something", etc?

I get a 404 Error Page not found

I use index.php?page=Contact

which uses a php switch to include files from /Pages directory