On Wednesday 06 September 2006 2:37 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 10:53, Nick Wiltshire wrote: > > So, on my laptop I have: > > you know you can have virtualhosts on your laptop too right? just throw an > name in /etc/hosts on the localhost line and use that name in your apache > config. prevents having to mess with the rewrite rules at all. anyways.... > > > RewriteRule ^/test/website/(.*) /test/website/index.php?var=$1 > > this works perfectly here. >
I got it to almost work, by putting it in a vhost context. However now I get ?var=/index.php on the end. Baby steps. > > RewriteRule /test/website/(.*) /test/website/index.php?var=$1 > > as does this, though you do want the ^ so you don't get something odd in > case of /foo/text/website > > > I get an internal server error > > can you please be verbose? you say you get an error .. well.. which one?! > the fewer details you provide the more likely it is no one will be able to > help you effectively. > That was actually the extent of the error. 500: internal server error. Your Apache config passed the testing phase but it's pooched, so fix it. Of course it puts it a bit more technical than that. > > Oh, another thing that might matter is I am putting these rules in the > > <Directory /> context. > > rewrite rules work rather differently in Directory and .htaccess contexts > than they do in the main server config. i really recommend reading > the "Per-directory rewrites" section on this page: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html Thanks, will do. I'm happy to have made a bit of progress for today. This is helpful while learning: http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/apache/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/ Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
