php mod_rewrite help

[MDanz]

i'm trying to get a clean url for my about page.

 

i want to change

 

http://www.example.com/about.php

 

to

 

http://www.example.com/about

 

i put my htaccess file as this

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.+)/([0-9]+)/?$ about.php

 

it's not working though, i get the 404 not found error.

[gizmola]

The number 1 rule of regex, when you don't need a regex don't use a regex.

 

RewriteRule ^about$ /about.php [L]

[MDanz]

ok i changed it and i typed http://www.example.com/about and i still get the 404 not found error

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^about$ /about.php [L]

 

 

any idea what could be wrong?

[gizmola]

Is about.php in the root of your site?  What is the document root and where are these mod rewrite rules?

[MDanz]

.htaccess file is in my public_html directory and about.php is in a folder in my public_html directory.

[gizmola]

So it's not in the root?  It's in /somefolder/about.php?

[MDanz]

when i upload to the server the file is in public_html/example.com/about.php

 

but on the domain address it is http://www.example.com/about.php

[wildteen88]

Then you need to move the .htaccess file to public_html/example.com (same folder where about.php is)

[cags]

It sounds to me like there might be some confusion in this thread. If a request to example.com/about.php returns the file, then it sounds to me like public_html/example.com is the document root, not public_html as would be the standard (generally speaking i'd set that up as example.com/public_html). If this indeed the case and you are putting the .htaccess file outside the document root then it is not evening being parsed. One way to checkout would be to place the following in the .htaccess file...

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* http://www.google.com [R=302,L]

 

... if you can request a page on your site without getting sent to google, the file isn't being parsed.

 

It seems to me, assuming I'm understanding your description correctly, that the .htaccess file should be in folder public_html/example.com/ along with your about.php file (this is essentially what wildteen88 said, just thought I'd clarify the reason).