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by **psychopsi** » 26 Feb 2007 17:44

I want to use rewrites to get rid of my php query strings.

First, I used:

Code: Select all: RewriteRule ^tkf/(.*)/$ tkf/index.php?page=$1 [L]

My working directory here is tkf but I plan to change that. I soon noticed that my css, js, and images were not showing up.

I then added these two rules to make them show up:

Code: Select all: #other files RewriteRule ^tkf/(.*)/(.*)(\.css)|(\.js)|(\.html)|(\.txt)|(\.ico)$ tkf/$2$3 [NC] #images folder RewriteRule ^tkf/(.*)/images/(.*)$ tkf/images/$2 [L]

But now I have problems with relative links! Every page has navigation with anchors with href="news/", href="contact/" etc. etc. Whenever your in a folder the links look like tkf/contact/news.

I know there must be a better way to be doing this. I've seen a little about using some variables (like REQUEST_URI) but nowhere have I found just a simple explanation on how to implement this.

I'm probably going about this wrong so I need to be pointed in the right direction.

Please help.

by **produke** » 26 Feb 2007 18:40

psychopsi wrote:I'm probably going about this wrong so I need to be pointed in the right direction.

Please help.

It should be pretty easy actually... I just need a couple examples (not the domain) of the url before and after the rewrite.. so like.

What are the Urls that you want people to see? And what are the urls that they will translate too.

domain.com/files/img/34.jpg --> domain.com/index.php?image=/34.jpg

by **psychopsi** » 27 Feb 2007 07:16

I've managed to get my css, js, and images to show up, it's now that links that trouble me.

I think that I'll be making some of the links absolute instead of relative. Like, "http://example.com/tkf/news/" instead of "news/". Because if I'm on the news page, all of the links start with "news/" and that is the problem.

e. g. http://example.com/tkf/news/contact/ instead of the desired http://example.com/tkf/contact/

If I were to use something like,

Code: Select all: RewriteRule ^tkf/(.*) tkf/index.php [QSA]

and I dunno, use php's $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] or something to determine the url, would I still have this problem?

by **produke** » 28 Feb 2007 01:46

psychopsi wrote:Like, "http://example.com/tkf/news/" instead of "news/".
Because if I'm on the news page, all of the links start with "news/"

e. g. http://example.com/tkf/news/contact/ instead of the desired http://example.com/tkf/contact/

If you can easily edit your pages head section, than add this to fix your problem.

Code: Select all: <head> <base href="http://x.com/tkf/"> </head>

Now on your http://x.com/tkf/news/ page a link to contact/ will goto http://x.com/tkf/contact/

Also change your htaccess code to this

Code: Select all: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /tkf RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/$ /tkf/index.php?page=$1 [L,NC]

This will let you use urls like

http://x.com/tkf/welcome/ or
http://x.com/tkf/images/ or
http://x.com/tkf/news/

Which will be served from /tkf/index.php?page=welcome

It will not work for these urls

http://x.com/tkf/welcome or
http://x.com/tkf/images/this.jpg or
http://x.com/tkf/welcome/index.html
http://x.com/images/anything

If this doesn't fix everything then let me know plus please provide more url examples of what you have that is not working and what you want.

by **psychopsi** » 01 Mar 2007 07:48

I've figured it out.

Thanks produke.

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