mod_rewrite again....

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:29 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

I'm trying to replace this:
/directory1/directory2/index.php?chapter=introduction
with
/directory1/directory2/introduction or /directory1/directory2/introduction/

so far I have this, but its throwing out an internal server error

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/directory1/directory2/([a-z]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /directory1/directory2/index.php?chapter=%1 [L]

I don't get it because this does an identical thing but with numbers and works fine. They are in different directories so are not clashing with each other in some way.

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/directorya/directoryb/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /directorya/directoryb/review.php?c=%1&p=%2 [L]

what am I missing?

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:53 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

shouldn't it be chapter=$1 not %1?

other than that I'm not sure

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Also do you have any way of looking at the server logs?

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 5:14 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

Now I just get a 404 Sad

If I stick .html on the end then that works perfectly, but I'd rather have it the other way.

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 5:17 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

Theres fair number of these from my IP
Request exceeded the limit of 20 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Oh here's the problem: you're catching everything, including directory2/index.php, and redirecting it to directory2/index.php. So you're going round in circles. (At least that's what I'm guessing Very Happy

)

I think you'll have to put index.php somewhere else...

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 6:24 pm (21 years, 4 months ago)

Just to let everyone know how this was eventually resolved (with Daniel's help Very Happy

), I decided to abandon the directory and am using the following:

http://www.mydomain.com/directory1/directory2/introduction.chapter

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/directory1/directory2/([a-z]*).chapter
RewriteRule ^(.*) /directory1/directory2/index.php?chapter=%1 [L]

Although it will work, with something like this (but I wasn't keen on that Smile

)

http://www.mydomain.com/directory1/directory2/c_introduction/

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/directory1/directory2/c_([a-z]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /directory1/directory2/index.php?chapter=%1 [L]