Mod Rewrite Problem

Discussion in 'Apache' started by Makaveli19, Mar 30, 2006.

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    Hello,

    I was hoping somebody can help me. Below is a mod rewrite for my auction site. It works great, however I was wondering if it's possible to remove the "Category/" part before each url.

    With the mod rewrite the urls currently look like this http://www.mysite.com/Category/Cell_Phones/

    I was just hoping there is a way to remove the "Category" part of the url so that the urls would read like this http://www.mysite.com/Cell_Phones/

    Is this possible with the rule below? I have tried but was unsuccessful. I got it to the point where everything was working except the CSS and images weren't appearing. Can someone help? Thanks in advance!

    # Browse auction
    RewriteRule ^Category/.*/[^/]+\_([0-9]+).html+$ index.php?a=1002&b=$1

    # Browse auctions by category
    RewriteRule ^Category/([^/]+/?[^/]+)/$ index.php?a=1005&b=$1&c=
    RewriteRule ^Category/([^/]+/?[^/]+)/\?Browse=([^&]+)$ index.php?a=1005&b=$1&c=$2
    RewriteRule ^Category/.*((images|css)/[^.]+\.[a-z]+)$ $1
    RewriteRule ^Category/.*/([^/]+\.[a-z]+)$ $1
     
    Makaveli19, Mar 30, 2006 IP
  2. Nintendo

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    You can only do it if the site is 100% using your index.php script.

    And then you have to change the CSS and image codes so there as if those URLs were the real URLs.
     
    Nintendo, Mar 30, 2006 IP
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    It should work fine if you remove the Category/ part (including the slash) from all the rules *and* modify the script that creates the URLs to eliminate the Category/ part there as well. I'm not sure why your images/css doesn't show. What script are you using?
     
    exam, Mar 30, 2006 IP
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    Hey Guys,

    Thanks for the responses. The script I am using is this one;

    geodesicsolutions.com/products/auctions/demos/enterprise/index.php

    I did try to remove the Category/ part and when I did that it seemed to work but like I said the css and images weren't working. If I remove the Category/ part from the .htaccess some lines would go from;

    RewriteRule ^Category/.*((images|css)/[^.]+\.[a-z]+)$ $1 to
    RewriteRule ^.*((images|css)/[^.]+\.[a-z]+)$ $1

    I think part of the problem is the rule now starts with ".*" This may be causing the problem. Can this rule start with that? If not what is the proper programming?

    I really appreciate any help I can get.
     
    Makaveli19, Mar 31, 2006 IP