Re: [users@httpd] .htaccess error URGENT

Dwayne Tharpe <dtharpe@xxxxxxx> · Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:58:07 -0400

I tried that but no luck.  I thought there would be something that I 

could use to just tell it ignore that it's a subdirectory name and go 

ahead with the re-write.

Dwayne

Andy Buckley wrote:

Joshua Slive wrote:

On 6/29/06, Dwayne Tharpe <dtharpe@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm new to this and have never used mod-rewrite before or used regular
expressions.

We have a need to mod_rewrite a link.  Below is what I'm using in a
.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymLinks

RewriteRule ^overview$ /guide/index.cfm?item=Chapter&Chapter_ID=C342 

[L]

The problem is that "overview" is the name of a subdirectory under
guide, so I get an error (403 I think)
when it tries to rewrite. I can't rename the subdirectory and the users
are demanding that they be able to use just the word "overview" as a
hyperlink.

Any suggestions? And I'm under a major time constraint :(

What does the error log say?  What does the RewriteLog say?

The easist way to do this would be to put the RewriteRule in the main
server config rather than in .htaccess.  Then you can simply use

RewriteRule ^/guide/overview$ 

/guide/index.cfm?item=Chapter&Chapter_ID=C342 [L]

Otherwise, as you're using a .htaccess file, you probably need to add a
"RewriteBase /guide" statement. Otherwise you get into a sort of
chicken/egg scenario about the order of resolving URLs to bits of the
filesystem: see the bit at the top of the mod-rewrite docs for more info.

Andy

---------------------------------------------------------------------

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

--
Dwayne Tharpe
Applications Analyst Programmer II
Highway Safety Research Center @ UNC
919.843.4963

---------------------------------------------------------------------
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