mod_rewrite issue. =(

I created the rule below and it seems to have some issues.

RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)\.html$ index.html?page=$1

I thought that this rule would take 'anylowercasetext.html' and reform it as 'index.html?page=anylowercasetext' but for some reason the regular expression seems to be acting weird; as in it will allow me to put any text into the URL and then match it to 'index.html?page=index'. (not sure why it puts 'index' for $1)

Now I'm not sure how this may relate to the problem but if I change the '.html' part of the regular expression to say '.foo'.. the regular expression seems to work 100% correctly.

So, I am assuming file extensions are somehow the problem.

Any help would be great -Dan

 

I think this is what that rule will do:
Put 'anylowercasetext.html' into the URL ---> content of 'index.html' will show up.

Uses the code below for the same results ( with '.foo' )

AddType application/x-httpd-html .foo

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)\.foo$ index.html?page=$1 [NC]

Code (markup):

Is this what you was trying to do?

 

Naw, I am trying to get

'anylowercasetext.html' -> index.html?page=anylowercasetext

But for some reason the text "html" in the regular expression is messing things up. ie: ^([a-z]+)\.html$

If I change that text to something else, like "htm", it works fine.

 

Does your server really process .HTML files with php, cgi or whatever scriptengine. If you're doing this with php you should probably need:

.PHP ext.

RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)\.html$ index.PHP?page=$1

Code (markup):

(maybe this rule is correct..)

When user browser sits at this url -> localhost/asdasd.html
Then index.php would get it like -> index.php?page=asdasd

 

Ok so I tested that RewriteRule out and it some what works.

RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)\.html$ index.PHP?page=$1 [L]

The problem now is that the regular expression is matching things it shouldn't, say a user types anything like:

www.domain.com/blah
www.domain.com/blah.xyz
www.domain.com/blah.htmlllll
www.domain.com/2234.html

These are all examples invalid matches that are triggering a match. The good news is that when a user types something in the correct format, everything works fine.

Also, when it is matched and the match is a error, the $1 back reference is translated into the word "missing".

So it translates literally into "index.php?page=missing

The behaviour that I was looking for was that if it didn't match they would get a 404 error.. which I can catch with another rule and toss to a custom page.


hmm, any suggestions?