weird rewrite issue

[schilly]

so i started making a new site based off the code from another.

 

I'm hung up on this rewrite:

 

RewriteRule ^account/(.*) account/index.php?sec=$1 [L]

 

I test it by going to /account/prefs and printing out the _GET array.

 

The _GET array shows this every time instead of "prefs", no matter the variable:

 

Array ( [sec] => index.php )

 

How index.php is getting set as the sec variable beats me. It doesn't matter what /account/sub_sec_name i use, it always gets set to index.php.

 

This code works fine on my other site so I'm not sure what the deal is.

 

Anyone have any ideas?

 

thx.

[cags]

.* will match 0 or more characters, since you are not forcing it to traverse to the end of the URL, I'd guess it's simply picking up 0 characters. Try...

 

RewriteRule ^account/(.*)$ account/index.php?sec=$1 [L]

[schilly]

ok well i figured it out. i left this piece of code out from htaccess which is from my coworker because of the comment on it:

 

#-- No idea what this does

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]

RewriteRule .* - [L]

 

Can anyone explain what this does?

 

After I added this code back in, everything worked.