I know, I know! You're thinking 'What the heck?? YOU asking a mod_rewrite questin?? U on crack??!!!!' I know!!!!! This is driving me NUTS!!!!!! Enjoy you're fun!!!!!! How do I allow a period in the changed part of the URL?? *Huh?? YOU asking a simple question like that???!!! You OK??!!!* I got Options +Indexes Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^directory/([^.]+)$ directory/index.php?title=$1 [L] And domain.com/directory/Widget_101 works, but domain.com/directory/Widget.101 doesn't. It's a wiki script, so I can't keep visitors from having files created with periods! (On wikipedia.org, URLs do work with periods!!) RewriteRule ^directory/([^.]+)\.([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$ directory/index.php?title=$1.$2.$3 [L] RewriteRule ^directory/([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$ directory/index.php?title=$1.$2 [L] doesn't fix it. Server tries to redirect over and over until it gives up. RewriteRule ^directory/(.*)$ directory/index.php?title=$1 [L] also doesn't work, even with out the period. It also tries to redirect until it gives up. What's driving me nuts even more is that for my Amazon scripts RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)\.html$ cgi-local/blah.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=$1 [L] works with no trouble for.... domain.com/B000BI4GP6/S.i.d_M.e.i.e.r.s_.Civ.i.l.i.z.a.t.i.o.n_I.V.P.r.e.s.e.l.l_E.d.i.t.i.o.n.html You can stop laughing now!!!!!! pwetty pweze!!!!!!!!
I have done the following, then both "domain.com/directory/Widget_101" and "domain.com/directory/Widget.101" worked properly. First, take your index.php file to one upper level. So it will look like domain.com/index.php not domain.com/directory/index.php Then change your .htaccess file with this one: Options +Indexes Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.+)$ /index.php?title=$2 [L] I don't know why but that worked.
On other domains I had it in the main directory and it did the same thing! I got this to make it work.... (Still don't understand how!!) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/directory/index\.php RewriteRule ^directory/([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$ directory/index.php?title=$1.$2 [L] RewriteRule ^directory/([^.]+)$ directory/index.php?title=$1 [L] I think it's the script's redirect stuff that caused the chaos. index.php for example automatically redirects to index.php?title=Main_Page And then I had the CSS chaos! I had to move that to the main directory for that to work. Images and CSS do not like mod_rewrite! ( I even tried <base href="http://www.world-of-nintendo.com/" /> )
RewriteRule ^directory/([^.]+)$ directory/index.php?title=$1 [L] is explicitly disallowing periods. Try RewriteRule ^directory/(.*)$ directory/index.php?title=$1 [L] That should grab everything, including periods cheers johnt
I think it was the script that was making the redirect chaos. All URLs are created by the index.php wiki file and it has a few redirect things in the file. This is the only script I've ever used that didn't like (.*)! The code in my last post, from jdMorgan fixed it.