mod rewrite

[ohdang888]

When someone types in www.mydomain.com/a3kd  .... i want it to go to photo.php?id=a3kd

But when someone types in www.mydomain.com/contact i want it to go to the contact folder, index.php

 

So, i have this rule:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*+)$ photo.php?id=$1

 

BUT, that redirects the www.mydomain.com/contact to photo.php?id=contact.

 

Any ideas?

 

Oh ya, and the "id" may be between 4 and 10 characters long

 

Thanks!

 

 

[Daniel0]

Add

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

before the RewriteRule.

[ohdang888]

Add

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

before the RewriteRule.

 

thanks!!

[ohdang888]

one more question.

 

how does mod rewrite decide which one of the following to use in the case of:

www.mydomain.com/test/154534

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*+)$ index.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^test/(.*+)$ testing1234.php?id=$1

 

b/c right now, its directing that url to index.php even though i declare "test" in it.

[Daniel0]

It matches as long as it can and as long as you don't stop the chain.

 

So www.mydomain.com/test/154534 matches the first rule, and it becomes www.mydomain.com/index.php?id=test/154534, which doesn't match any further rules.

 

You can switch the rules around and add [L] to the one with "test", or you can limit the regex in the current first one.

[ohdang888]

ohhh ok that makes sense.

 

thanks.

 

 

 

[ohdang888]

I have this:

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^test/(.*+)$ testing1234.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*+)$ index.php?id=$1

 

and this url:

http://smydomain.com/test/3546

 

and its still using index.php

[Ken2k7]

Try adding - RewriteBase /