Question

Here is my entire .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~user/sitetest/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.+?)/?$ view.php?id=$1

When I access http://localhost/~user/sitetest/abc123, it loads the $_GET[“id”] value and everything works fine. It’s brilliant!

But I wanted it to work at http://localhost/~user/sitetest/view/abc123 (notice “view/”)

So I tried replacing the RewriteRule with:

 RewriteRule ^view/(.+?)/?$ view.php?id=$1

But to no avail! It doesn’t seem to load the $_GET[] from view.php. I even tried echoing out the $_GET[] value but it shows up as blank when I access http://localhost/~user/sitetest/view/abc123

So I edited it to see if this would work:

RewriteRule ^view-(.+?)/?$ view.php?id=$1

And it does when I access http://localhost/~user/sitetest/view-abc123 (notice the “-” instead of a “/”)

So does it have something to do with the slash?? I am lost and have been struggling to figure this out.

EDIT:

I’m still having problems, but I noticed when I tried:

 RewriteRule ^test/(.+)/?$ view.php?id=$1

And accessed http://localhost/~user/sitetest/test/abc123 it worked!
So there seems to be a conflict with “view.php” and “view/” .. so in the worst case I’ll rename view.php. But I’d still like to figure out what exactly is going wrong.

Answer 1

view in the requested url clashes with the view.php file, if MultiViews is enabled.

Disabled it with Options -MultiViews in your htaccess.