rewriting "server.com/articles/order:date" works, "server.com/order:date" NOT

i have a quite interesting problem.

i use mod_rewrite to have "nice and cool urls" on my server. everything works fine. i decided to add new functionality:
<parameter-name>:<parameter-value> (e.g. order:date for order by date)

when i call www.server.com/articles/order:date apache displays articles page with ordered articles by date, so rewriting works properly. but when i try to call www.server.com/order:date to order articles on title page, apache does "nothing" - apache does not rewrite the url and it try to display page /order:date:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /order:date on this server.

(but if i replace : delimiter by ~ or ! or @ (and some other signs), rewriting works ok also for www.server.com/order~date. rewriting also does not worl for | delimiter.)

i have really no idea what's going wrong. any suggestions?

 

Forget :. Use - if you want it as search engine friendly as you can get it.

 

thanks for reply, Nintendo.

so, it's really not possible to use : as i want? why www.server.com/articles/order:date works and www.server.com/order:date does not?

i think, there is not problem in rewriting rules, because when i call link www.server.com/order:date only access.log file is modified and rewrite.log and error.log files are not touched by apache. when i call www.server.com/articles/order:date, there is possible to see new records in access.log and rewrite.log logs.

when i use : or | as delimiter signs, link www.server.com/order:date is not rewritten. but when i use e.g. ~ or @ or ! it works ok. that's the second reason why i think it's not due my rewrite rules.

so, can you explain me it to make my apache knowledges deeper? thanks in advance

 

Post your .htaccess codes. If this is to make the search engines like you, you'll use - .

 

Hey Nintendo,

any more tips for making it SEO friendly?

 

Use URLs that look like static URLs.

 

Nintendo, here is my .htaccess:

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/.+\..+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/ [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !/index\.php
RewriteRule ^(([a-z]{2})(/))?(.*)$ index.php?p1=$2&p2=$4 [NC,L,QSA]


in your answer to reyotech you wrote to use URLs that look like static URLs. this means use www.server.com/articles/article-1 or www.server.com/articles/article-1.html ?

 

Both are just as good.

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)\.html$ index.php?p1=$1&p2=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^articles/([^.]+)/([^.]+)\.html$ articles/index.php?p1=$1&p2=$2 [L]

domain.com/index.php?p1=order&p2=date.htm
to
domain.com/order/date.html

the second code is if you have them in the articles directory.

 

Nintendo, thanks for your reply and opinion, but my rewrite rules in .htaccess work properly, so i don't need any help in there. i just need to know the reason of non-rewriting the www.server.com/order:date url...

 

I'm guessing that's one of the characters that requires a RewriteCond for it to work.

 

i tried to write a RewriteCond, but without success... any idea, how to do it?

 

Use -, something that does work AND is search engine friendly.

 

seems, i will have to. anyway, thanks for help Nintendo