mod_rewrite - can't figure this out!

[canadian_angel]

Hi,

I am new to php and have to do a project that consists of a joke page, a jokelist page and the front page or index page. My problem is this: I have used the text below in my .htaccess page and the only thing I get when I run the index.php file is the list of joke categories which is right but when i click on a category it produces an not found error.

I am so confused, please can someone help!

 

 

 

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule^/jokespage$ index.php

[cags]

The code you have pasted will make Apache look for any URLs that matches /jokespage. I do not believe that the forward slash is passed to a .htaccess file though so it will never match anything. On the flip side, you will likely need the forward slash on the rewritten address. Fixing that would give you...

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule^jokespage$ /index.php

 

This would take any request for http://yourdomain.com/jokespage, and would display http://yourdomain.com/index.php to the user.