David--The way you describe your problem indicates you may misunderstand what URL rewriting does.
> So I have three basic "raw" URL's that look something > like this: > > http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia > http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia > http://www.geozoo.org/topics/index.php?topic=Tundra+Mammals > > I want them to display like this: > > http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Animalia > http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/Animalia > http://www.geozoo.org/topics/Tundra Mammals >Your objective isn't to display URLS but to translate user friendly URLS (entered by your users) into program-friendly URLs (which Apache then passes to your php programs).
You want to translate this http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Animalia into http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia by using this rule: RewriteRule ^/stacks/(.*)$ /stacks/index.php?taxon=$1 [L] from http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/Chordata to http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia RewriteRule ^/kids/stacks/(.*)$ /kids/stacks/index.php?taxon=$1 [L] from http://www.geozoo.org/topics/Tundra+Mammal to http://www.geozoo.org/topics/index.php?topic=Tundra+Mammals RewriteRule ^/topics/(.*)$ /topics/index.php?topic=$1 [L] So you'll need something like this in your httpd.conf: RewriteEngine on RewriteLog logs/rewrite.log RewriteLogLevel 1 RewriteRule ^/stacks/(.*)$ /stacks/index.php?taxon=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/kids/stacks/(.*)$ /kids/stacks/index.php?taxon=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/topics/(.*)$ /topics/index.php?topic=$1 [L] Hope that helps, John David Blomstrom wrote:
I've bookmarked several mod_rewrite tutorials and am currently working on one at http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-Services/Make-Dynamic-URLs-Search-Engine-Friendly/3/ I very quickly got hung up on a couple items. Before I continue, let me give you a brief overview of what I want to do. You can see a page where I want to display articles about animals at http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/If you change the URL to http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia,then you can click "Chordata" at the top of the column on the right, changing the URL to http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/index.php?taxon=Chordata. You can continue clicking Mammalia, followed by any order, with similar results. I want to change this so the URL's follow this pattern: http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Animalia http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Chordata http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Mammalia There will tentatively be articles for kids at the following rewritten URL's: http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/Animalia http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/Chordata http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/Mammalia Another section produces raw URL's that look like these: http://www.geozoo.org/topics/index.php?topic=Biomes http://www.geozoo.org/topics/index.php?topic=Tundra http://www.geozoo.org/topics/index.php?topic=Tundra+Mammals I want them shortened to... http://www.geozoo.org/topics/Biomes http://www.geozoo.org/topics/Tundra http://www.geozoo.org/topics/Tundra+Mammal So I have three basic "raw" URL's that look something like this: http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia http://www.geozoo.org/topics/index.php?topic=Tundra+Mammals I want them to display like this: http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Animalia http://www.geozoo.org/kids/stacks/Animalia http://www.geozoo.org/topics/Tundra Mammals * * * * * * * * * * The tutorial directed me to visit the infamous mod_rewrite RewriteRule Generator at http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod_rewrite-rewriterule-generator.shtml I want to get this up and running on my computer first, and I assume everything will automatically be translated for the Internet when I publish my files online. So I used http://geozoo/stacks/index.php?taxon=Animalia as an example of "Your Dynamic URL," then chose Directory I entered this for Page Name: http://geozoo/stacks/Animalia It generated this rule: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule index/(.*)/(.*)/$ /stacks/index.php?$1=$2 ...and said my page would be rewritten to this URL: http://geozoo/index/taxon/Animalia/ Instead, I want it rewritten to http://geozoo/stacks/Animalia/, which will translate (I hope) into http://www.geozoo.org/stacks/Animalia. But I decided to play with this for the time being. So I created a .htaccess file and pasted the rule in it. But when I type http://geozoo/index/taxon/Animalia/ into my browser, I get no results. So I appear to be doing at least two things wrong. * * * * * * * * * * I haven't been restarting my computer at various steps of this tutorial, because I haven't been directed to do so. I have a str_replace function designed to replace spaces in multi-word phrases like "Tundra Mammals" with a +, but I'm using it on this page yet. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com--------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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