Page hangs with simple rewrite rule

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This is my first attempt at mod_rewrite.

 

What I'm trying to do is make it so that when the user clicks any mp3 link (example, 1.mp3), mod_rewrites redirects that to download.php

 

I this in .htaccess:

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule *.mp3 download.php

 

if I go to http://localhost/1.mp3, the page hangs. Firefox shows the 'loading' sign on the tab, like it's about to load the other page, but it doesn't.

 

any help would be great. thanks

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.mp3$ /download.php?id=$1

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Didn't seem to work =(

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What exactly are you trying to do and how exactly did it not work? Using the code I gave you in my previous post if you typed... http://localhost/blah.mp3 ... the the file the user would actually see is http://localhost/download.php?id=blah, but the address bar should remain as the original URL. If that is not what you want then give...

 

a.) what you are typing in the address bar.

b.) what you want the address bar to change to (if at all).

c.) what file you wish to actually be displayed.

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Sorry for not being so clear.

 

What I'm trying to is, i'll have a link. say

<a href="1.mp3">click to download</a>

 

When i click the link, instead of a download dialog popping up or having the file play in the browser, i want the browser to go to download.php

 

What is happening now:

When i click the link:

- page hangs in firefox.

- Chrome plays the mp3 file in browser

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Hmm.. the code I gave previously should work then, I just tested out on my localhost, works fine. Try closing your browser, restarting Apache and trying again, I've had strange issues with .htaccess files before, some kind of strange caching issue.