Question

I have an index.php and news.php and .htaccess files in my localhost/DIRECTORY/AID/
folder, and I am basically trying send/receive data from index.php to news.php

This is a function inside the index.php, which creates a link from database query, and echos out a title of an article.

function news_preview() {
    $query = "SELECT * FROM updates ORDER BY update_id DESC LIMIT 5  ";
    $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
        $url = "/news/$row[update_id]/" . preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9-_]/', '_',
            $row['update_title']);
        echo "<a href=\"$url\">  " . substr($row['update_title'], 0, 26) . "...</a><br/>";
    }
}

echo news_preview();

Now, here is what the .htaccess looks like

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)$ DIRECTORY/AID/news.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

Now, to the problem. Basically, when I clicked on the link (generated by news_preview() )
shown in the index.php, All I get in the news.php page is nothing. But, probably because I am trying to use the $_GET['title'] Although, I am not certain if that is how we retrieve data. But, the links take me to http://localhost/news/46/This_is_news_title
which is perfect, but I am getting the Object Not Found error

Below, is the image of the error I am getting.

Answer 1

Put this code in the htdocs/.htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/.*$ /DIRECTORY/AID/news.php?id=$1 [QSA,L,NC]