RewriteRule not working

[hedgehog90]

I own a games wbesite called gpstudios.com

I want to make it so that instead of loading pages with .php?id=xxx, they load with /id

 

This is what I've tried so far:

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^play/([0-9]+) playgame.php?gameid=$1

 

I want to change playgame.php?gameid=200 to play/200

But if I type http://www.gpstudios.com/play/200 I get a white page, with only the ads displaying correctly. No other images are loading.

Also, I thought through this technique it would work both ways, but when I type in http://www.gpstudios.com/playgame.php?gameid=200 and load the page, the address doesn't change. How do I make it so that the address converts http://www.gpstudios.com/playgame.php?gameid=200 into http://www.gpstudios.com/play/200 ???

 

Help, please.

[Adam]

There doesn't appear to be a problem with the rewrite rule, but you're using relative paths to your external JavaScripts and stylesheets. For example:

 

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

 

The browser will try to find the stylesheet relative from the current URL, effectively "play/200/style.css". You need to use an 'absolute' path that doesn't need to change in any directory... For example:

 

<link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

 

That will look for "style.css" within the document root.