RewriteRule doesn't behave the same way on live server

**bianster** · Mar 23, 2005, 10:47

I have a .htaccess file with the following rules

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule    ^$/index.php [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)/$	/$1/index.php [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)\.(html|htm)$    /$1.php [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)$    /$1.php [L]

now on localhost, this url (http://localhost/cp/landscape/) is able to be processed by the cp.php file but when I try this on the live server, this fails and the Apache server attempts to look for the index.php file in the landscape directory instead....

After some head scratching, i found out that this url (http://www.liveserver.com/cp.php/landscape/) works.... how come? does it has something to do with the Apache config??

**Caterham** · Mar 23, 2005, 13:57

no rule would match for /cp/landscape/

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-_/]+)/$ /$1/index.php [L]
# /cp/landscape/ or /cp/landscape.htm/.html --> /cp.php
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-_/]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_/]+/?|html?)$ /$1.php [L]

**Dean C** · Mar 23, 2005, 16:20

Also this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-_/]+)/$ /$1/index.php [L]

Should be this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-_/]+)/?$ /$1/index.php [L]

That way the rule doesn't break if it doesn't have a trailing slash

**dklynn** · Mar 23, 2005, 18:50

bian,
[QUOTE=bianster]

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule    ^$/index.php [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)/$	/$1/index.php [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)\.(html|htm)$    /$1.php [L]
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)$    /$1.php [L]

Caterham: Note the / in the square brackets - that does allow multiple subdirectories.

I suspect that it's the leading slashes in the redirect (not the unnecessary escape - backslashes - in the atom's square brackets) nor the lack of space between the ^$ and /index.php in the first rule.

Try eliminating those leading slashes in the redirections and see if that doesn't resolve your problem (it's a major difference between Windows-based test servers and Linux production [online] servers).

Regards,

DK

**bianster** · Mar 27, 2005, 02:58

thanks for the quick replies, haven't have a chance to try out the suggestions yet though

**bianster** · Apr 21, 2005, 02:47

[QUOTE=dklynn]bian,

Originally Posted by bianster

Code:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule    ^$/index.php [L]
 RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)/$	/$1/index.php [L]
 RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)\.(html|htm)$    /$1.php [L]
 RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)$    /$1.php [L]

Try eliminating those leading slashes in the redirections and see if that doesn't resolve your problem (it's a major difference between Windows-based test servers and Linux production [online] servers).

Regards,

DK

hi dklynn,

i've tried removing the leading slashes in the redirect but it didn't seem to fix the problem

**dklynn** · Apr 21, 2005, 18:43

bianster,

Okay, let's start all over with the regex: What do you want to redirect and what should it be redirected to?

From my read of your code,

Code:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule    ^$/index.php [L]
#1 blank => index.php BUT you've GOT to separate the $ and /!!!
 RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)/$	/$1/index.php [L]
#2 redirect "everything without dots" followed by a slash
#  to that as a subdirectory then it's index.php file
 RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)\.(html|htm)$    /$1.php [L]
#3 redirect "everything without dots" as htm or html filenames
#  to PHP scripts with the same name
 RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-\_/]*)$    /$1.php [L]
#4 redirect "everything without dots" to a php script
# of the same name

Were these what you were looking to do?

That said, http://localhost/cp/landscape/ should be picked up by #2 on both servers. http://www.liveserver.com/cp.php/landscape/ should NOT (because of the dot in cp.php).

Regards,

DK

**bianster** · Apr 21, 2005, 22:52

well, actually what I want to is to have either cp.php or public.php to handle all requests that start with cp or public, eg, http://www.liveserver.com/cp/landscape/ OR http://www.liveserver.com/public/landscape/.

**dklynn** · Apr 22, 2005, 00:27

bianster,

Originally Posted by bianster

well, actually what I want to is to have either cp.php or public.php to handle all requests that start with cp or public, eg, http://www.liveserver.com/cp/landscape/ OR http://www.liveserver.com/public/landscape/.

Okay, that's the what. What's the whereto?

In other words, you want to redirect ^(cp|public)/(.*)$ to $1.php?something=$2 [L] if I read your reply correctly. Wanna confirm OR tell what your regex is supposed to be redirected to?

Regards,

DK