Question

This problem concerns me for a long time. I admit that it is probably because of lack of experience so I hope I could get some ideas.

Here is the code in .htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^view-([0-9]+)$ view.php?id=$1 [NC,QSA]

So when I access http://domain/project/view-44 it works fine, but I would like it to work with a slash in the end like http://domain/project/view-44/

So I changed the last line to

RewriteRule ^view-([0-9]+)/$ view.php?id=$1 [NC,QSA]

And now when I access http://domain/project/view-44/ all the images, javascripts and style is gone.

Now, instead of getting the css from http://domain/project/style.css it tries to get it from http://domain/project/view-44/style.css

I believe the issue is about incorrect way of specifying url for items. In my case it is simply

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" >
<img src="images/web/showreel.png" alt="Image1" />

Does that mean that I have to specify a full url ( http://domain/project/images/web/showreel.png ) in every required element?

Answer 1

It is always best to specify absolute URL as this way you know the document will always be reached. I know its longwinded but instead of declaring

<img src='http://domain/project/images/web/showreel.png' />

Setup a PHP gloabal variable like

define('SITE_URL', ' http://domain/project');

Then do

<img src='<?php echo SITE_URL; ?>/images/web/showreel.png' />

Also with regards to the .htaccess, take a look at http://blog.valtersboze.com/2009/06/add-or-remove-trailing-slash-in-url-with-htaccess/

This explains how to remove or keep the trailing slash, but not both, never both, google doesnt like both, they’ll see it as duplicate content.