I came up with a fix, although not elegant. In the www root directory I had a master.php and a debug.php. master.php provides the master template (header, menu, footer, etc.). Ideally, master.php should call a function named get_content() located in debug.php (or any other content supplying file) and display a complete page. It's a little more complicated than that, but you get the idea.
For some reason, when I typed http://localhost/debug into the browser, it automatically added the .php, displaying a blank page (there are only functions defined in that file). I renamed debug.php to _debug.php and just added the underscore before including the file in master.php. The rule I mentioned earlier now works. I'd much rather just tell apache to not append the .php automatically. The only plus to this is that a segregation of master pages and sub-pages is enforced (underscores and no underscores). On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Jackman <kd7...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm experimenting with mod_rewrite. I'm following the following tutorial: > http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/apache-mod_rewrite-examples > > Why does this work: RewriteRule ^/?$ master.php [NC,L] > > But not this: RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z_]+)$ master.php [NC,L] > > Eventually, I'd like the latter (non-working) line to be something > like: RewriteRule ^/?([a-zA-Z_]+)$ master.php?p=$1 [NC,L] > > I'd be happy to show off more code if you'd like to see it. Thanks! > > -- > Andrew Jackman > kd7...@gmail.com > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any > attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may > contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not > the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > destroy all copies of the original message. > -- Andrew Jackman kd7...@gmail.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
