SEF URLS - .htaccess Showing Ugly URL?

[PaulBruk2010]

Hi i know enough about PHP to write websites etc.. but im looking at ways to improve my URLS from

 

http://www.mysite.co.uk/show_cat.php?cat_ID=54 

 

to

http://www.mysite.co.uk/category/54

 

I know this aint Useful but this is my first look at Mod Rewrite so once i get this working i can move on..

 

Now i got it working with :-

 

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule ^category/([0-9]+)/?$ http://www.mysite.co.uk/show_cat.php?cat_ID=$1  [NC,L]

 

Only problem being if you put in

http://www.mysite.co.uk/category/54

 

It goes to the correct page showing the correct category.. but the URL is showing as the ugly one, so its just working as a Redirect, rather than a re Write?

 

http://www.mysite.co.uk/show_cat.php?cat_ID=54

 

Where have i gone wrong?

 

Cheers Paul

[wildteen88]

Remove http://www.mysite.co.uk/ from your rewrite rule. Using absolute urls in your rules will redirect the user.

 

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule ^category/([0-9]+)/?$ show_cat.php?cat_ID=$1  [NC,L]

[PaulBruk2010]

Thanks for the reply, that kinda works but now im presented by another problem..  :'(

 

all the images appear broken? because where images are in this path

http://mysite.co.uk/images/2009/more.jpg

 

when sent from the SEF URL new path becomes http://mysite.co.uk/category/images/2009/more.jpg  :'(

 

Note: /category? has appeared in there?

 

Any thoughts?

 

[wildteen88]

If your images are located in http://mysite.co.uk/images/ then start your images path with a / this will always request the images from the root of the url

<img src="/images/file.jpg">

 

Or prepend your sites domain

<img src="http://sitename.com/images/file.jpg">

[PaulBruk2010]

Hi, yeah , thats what i was afraid of lol.. its quite a big site with some 63 dynamic pages, basically e comerce shopping site, so it means i`ll have to make all the image URLs and Links the full Paths from the root if i want to make it more SEF..

 

Thanks for your help..

 

Paul 

[PaulBruk2010]

Hi, i managed to write another rule to take out the word category from the urls before /category/images.

 

to /images which fixed that.. now just got to go through the site and make sure all links

are full paths and then i think ive got it sussed.. fingers crossed..

 

Cheers Paul.