Question

I’m having issues with apaches mod_rewrite. I’m wanting to make clean urls with my php application but it doesn’t seem to give the results i’m expecting.

I’m using this code in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^project/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})$ /project/index.php?q=$1&r=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^project/([0-9]{4})$ /project/index.php?q=$1 [L]

To make it so when I view, http://localhost/user/project/system, it would be the equivelant of viewing http://localhost/user/project/index.php?q=system

Instead of getting any results I just get a typical 404 error.

I’ve also just checked to see if mod_rewrite works by replace my .htaccess code with this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.stackoverflow.com

And it properly redirects me here, so mod_rewrite is definitely working.

The root path to my project is /home/user/public_html/project

The the url used to view my project is http://localhost/user/project

If anymore information is required let me know.

Thanks

Answer 1

If your .htaccess file is indeed located in the project/ subdirectory already, then don’t mention it in the RewriteRule again. Remove it:

RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})$ /project/index.php?q=$1&r=$2 [L]
# no "project/" here

Rules always pertain to the current local filename mapping.

Else experiment with a RewriteBase.