Mod Rewrite help

Server Config
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Hi people

Having a sticky time with a simple mod rewrite, should be easy but I just cant seem to get it to work tonight.

My incoming URL will look like

[www.mysite.com/pagename/optionname](http://www.mysite.com/pagename/optionname)

I want it to rewrite into

[www.mysite.com/index.php?slug=pagename/optionname/](http://www.mysite.com/index.php?slug=pagename/optionname/)

ie the whole query is to passed as the value of ‘slug’ including any and all backslashes

Ive tried


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php?slug=$1

and variants to no avail

TIA

2

Mandes,

Too much wrong for me to correct now - look at the tutorial in my signature and I’ll get back shortly.

Regards,

DK

3

Okay, how is pagename defined? You’ve got to specify that without being able to conflict with actual (existing) pagenames.

Then, why kill an existing query string?

Then, ^/ will only work on Apache 1.x servers, not on Apache 2.x servers. That’s been the case for several years now.

Finally, what do you expect (.*) to match? It will match EVERYTHING (or NOTHING) and that’s absolutely ridiculous code to use. It’s so bad that I have created a Standard Rant to use:

[rant #1][indent]The use of “lazy regex,” specifically the :kaioken: EVERYTHING :kaioken: atom, (.*), and its close relatives, is the NUMBER ONE coding error of newbies BECAUSE it is “greedy.” Unless you provide an “exit” from your redirection, you will ALWAYS end up in a loop![/indent][/rant #1]

Again, have a look at the tutorial and you’ll learn how to do it correctly. Many have already.

Regards,

DK