Adam_28 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Hi guys, I have a problem with Mod_Rewrite, and I'm sure its been discussed before, but I can't find a solution to it. I work for a small company and we've developed our own custom CMS which works very well, however, when we attempted to port it to use Mod_Rewrite, things started going wrong. The .htaccess code is below: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteBase /adam/webdev/company/site/ RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9/]+)([^/])$ $1$2/ [R] RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9/]+)/$ index.php?page=$1 [L] </IfModule> Because we use a development server, not everything is stored in our root directory, so I've used RewriteBase to point to where the root directory of the clients site is being developed. This is rather annoying and requires a manual change to the .htaccess file everytime we begin to build a new site, and if our clients were to move their code from one server to another, they most likely wouldn't know to edit the .htaccess file. What I would like is something that allows Mod_Rewrite to interpret what directory the .htaccess file is in like so: RewriteBase $HTACCESS_LOCATION The other problem is with paths to images and javascript files etc. A typical URL would look like: http://www.mycompany.com/news/recent/ where the root directory where the .htaccess file is located is: http://www.mycompany.com/ and the news/recent is sent to index.php as the page GET variable. The problem we have is that our entire code base previously used relative paths to images/files etc: ./images/dummy.jpg and now this won't work because we previously had URL's looking like this: http://www.mycompany.com/index.php?page=pagename What I think is happening, is that instead of looking for the images in the root directory like it did before (because index.php was always located there), it looks at the URL, sees /news/recent/ and looks for the files in the "recent" directory which of course doesn't exist, and hence doesn't find the files. Has anyone had this problem before? And if so, are there any suggestions on how to solve it? Thanks, Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frikus Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I have the same problem. I posted the following message in the main Apache forum and did't get any answer: Hi, I want to use nice URLs on my website, something like http://site.com/article/24 instead of http://site.com/article.php&id=24 I achieve this using RewriteRule directive: RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)$ article.php&id=$1 [L] The problem is that after redirection to a link like http://site.com/article/24 my browser takes /24 as a folder and changes path in all my relative links in the article.php, and a path to .css file too. Example: http://site.com/story/51 changes to http://site.com/24/story/51 How can I change this behaviour if I don't want to use absolute links? Or I'm just missing something? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frikus Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I found the solution by myself. You need to specify the base URL for all relative links in a page using the <base> html tag. In my case I put this tag into my header template file which is the same for all my pages. <head> ... <base href="http://site.com/base/" /> .... </head> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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