Not showing the formatted URL

[Chud37]

hello;

 

I have the following .htaccess file:

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10

AddType "text/html; charset=UTF-8" html 
AddType "text/plain; charset=UTF-8" txt

RewriteRule ^series/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ "http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?language=$1&m=$2" [NC]
RewriteRule ^play/([^/]+)$ "http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?p=$1" [NC]
RewriteRule ^browse$ "http://www.mydomain.com/browse.php" [NC]
RewriteRule ^browse/$ "http://www.mydomain.com/browse.php" [NC]
RewriteRule ^help$ "http://www.mydomain.com/help.php" [NC]
RewriteRule ^help/$ "http://www.mydomain.com/help.php" [NC]

 

We have recently moved servers, and this .htaccess file was working fine on our old server but now moving over and using the above .htaccess file it seems to be doing something different.

 

For instance, If I goto www.mydomain.com/browse - I should be redirected to browse.php, and the user shouldn't know any better.  The browser is doing the first part right, it redirects it to the correct page, but it is not hiding the browse.php from the address bar in the clients web-browser.

 

So the redirects are working, but it is also giving away our pages aswell.  If a user goes to www.mydomain.com/series/english/my-series, I DONT want them to see www.mydomain.com/index.php?language=english&m=my-series

 

can someone help please? Its a new server I have WHM access and Cpanel obviously.  What can it be?

 

~Chud37

[Chud37]

Topic solved, after much frustration.  The answer was to NOT use http://www.mydomain.com and just use index.php.  So now my .htaccess file looks like:

 

 

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10

AddType "text/html; charset=UTF-8" html 
AddType "text/plain; charset=UTF-8" txt


RewriteRule ^series/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ "index.php?language=$1&m=$2" [NC]
RewriteRule ^play/([^/]+)$ "index.php?p=$1" [NC]
RewriteRule ^browse$ "browse.php" [NC]
RewriteRule ^browse/$ "browse.php" [NC]
RewriteRule ^help$ "help.php" [NC]
RewriteRule ^help/$ "help.php" [NC]

 

Hope this helps anyone.