[56KBs]

Hey all,

I am in need of some help, I found a nice little snippet for htaccess which will make /index.php?page=login become /login but it seems after I used this code I had to edit all my header locations from index.php?page=login into login for this to work. Else it will just show the url as index.php?page=login

htaccess code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

After editing all my header locations into just text such as login everything was fine on my XAMPP server, but when I put it all on my web host it seems that this htaccess thing has stopped working, I keep getting "The requested URL /sites/infusion/projects/catalogue/index.php was not found on this server."

Is this due to the fact my domain is hosted within a subdomain, which is in subdirectories from my / directory?

Is there any way I can fix this issue and make it work with nice looking url's?

[JackOfAllTrades]

Not a PHP question moved to Web Development

[RudiVisser]

Is your server definitely Apache, and are you definitely allowed to use .htaccess files? I mean is the .htaccess working at all (put an error in it to find out)?

[56KBs]

Sorry about putting it in the wrong section.

And yeah, if I just type error into the file it comes up with a server error.

It's as if it is trying to get the file from the wrong directory.

Having said all this, I am in the process of waiting for my sub-domain to be setup, so perhaps it will work using the subdomain

[56KBs]

Okay, even with the sub-domain working it still does the same.

It tries to include /sites/infusion/projects/catalogue/index.php

My domain is within the folder of /sites/infusion

And my subdomain is within the folder of /sites/infusion/projects

So why is it trying to access a file it shouldn't be able to reach, shouldn't my domain's root folder be the /sites/infusion instead of the real root folder?

[RudiVisser]

Try the following .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

[56KBs]

Bingo! Thanks a lot!

What's annoying though is that fact I just made some code to change all the header locations from just something into 'index.php?page=something'

Oh well.

This post has been edited by 56KBs: 23 July 2011 - 08:12 AM

[RudiVisser]

You don't need to update your links, of course it's "best practice", however it won't matter from an SEO standpoint if you were to do something like this too:

RewriteRule ^index.php?page=(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Google will see the permanent redirect and index that, not the index.php?page=XXX url.

Will save you a bit of time, you can clean up your links later.

[56KBs]

Now I am very confused.

I am now being told The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

Either some of the code I uploaded has an error or something has gone terribly wrong...

Also when I try to get onto just /index I get The requested URL /catalogue/index was not found on this server.

This post has been edited by 56KBs: 23 July 2011 - 08:57 AM

[RudiVisser]

Is this after adding the last line I said? Put it above the RewriteCond lines and see if that helps.

If not, take it out and update your links - Sorry

[56KBs]

No I didn't add in your line of code yet, I will once there is no need for more htaccess fiddling.

It seems I can fix the issue but only for index. If I put nothing in the url then index will load fine, if I put things such as /login or /index then the error appears again.

[RudiVisser]

That's strange, so what's the current contents of your .htaccess now, did you change anything with index.php? What happens if you go to /index.php?page=login manually, does it error? If so, the .htaccess may be freaking out by index.php returning an error after it's rewrote it.

This post has been edited by RudiVisser: 23 July 2011 - 09:12 AM

[56KBs]

Current .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

And visiting the urls with the $_GET's or typing in index.php work perfectly fine, just the other type doesn't.

[RudiVisser]

So what's changed, and how did you fix it for /index?

I mean this was working at one point, right? Or didn't it ever work?

[56KBs]

It was working as far as I saw, it redirected me to /login as it should and it worked fine.

Oh well, I shall keep just editing my code in the hope it works, if not I can resort to turning off that kind of linking so it's ok.

If only it worked as it does on XAMPP. Maybe it's just the fact it's godaddy