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.htaccess mod rewrite help please!

msd_luke

Hi All,

i am desperatly looking for some help with mod rewrites,

i have set up my site to show "tidy urls" which are virtual urls they dont exist, i want to now redirect these urls to the actual url which is valid if that makes sence?

i have a db of 100,000 plus products all using one page to send data in the url to pullout the specific data to show

so i have a real page like so

http://www.my-website.com/results.php?category=dvd&product=The Hurt Locker

now i have set it up so when the user clicks on this products link it goes to

http://www.my-website.com/dvd/the_hurt_locker

which does not exist

now as i understand it i have to ue mod rewrite to point the second url to the first? is that right?

so i have found this piece of code which i have tried to modify

 RewriteEngine On  

 RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  

 RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f  

 RewriteRule ^users/(\d+)*$ ./profile.php?id=$1  

 RewriteRule ^threads/(\d+)*$ ./results.php?id=$1  

 RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ ./search.php?query=$1

but i dont really unertand how it all works and am really struggling to get anywhere with this

any help is apprecated

p.s the categorys in the urls are not always dvd

msd_luke

ok im getting somewhere

found a generator online and came up with this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /price_finder2.php?category=$1&product=$2 [L]

and now when i type in this for example
http://www.kernow-connect.com/dvd/the%20hurt%20locker

it loads up a page with the correct data but there is no css formatting, what do i have to do get this to work?

EDIT

All css has been removed from the entire site??? (ive temp removed the rewrite code). any ideas please?

thanks
Luke

lonelygirl86

Update the links of your css. You can do it this way:

Hope this helps

msd_luke

hi lonelygirl86,

i have updated the css links like so

<link href="/autosuggest/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/css/rating.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="/css/newcss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

on the page which my rewrite rule applies to but it still doesnt show the css styling
any ideas?

thanks for your reply
Luke

msd_luke

ok i have managed to solve most of my problems by adding the following to my htaccess

RewriteCond &#37;{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f

now the only problems i have are all the links on the new virtual pages have an extra directory in them

e.g i have a link home which should be

www.home.com/index.php

but it is for some reason adding dvd directory in it like so

www.home.com/dvd/index.php

so none of the links are currently working on that page?

any ideas?
thanks
Luke

msd_luke

solved!!! added / to all my links and it removed the extra directory