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phpapache.htaccessmod-rewrite
bradm
bradm

Reputation: 295

htaccess rewrite giving a 404?

I currently have this line in my htaccess: 

RewriteRule ^/events/([^/\.]+)/?$/ /events.php?eventdate=$1 [NC,L]

I have a php page events.php that is pulled dynamic dates and generating the content. When people go to /events/04-26-2013/ for example I want it to be pulling from events.php?eventdate=04-26-2013

Any ideas where I am going wrong here? It currently gives me a 404 when I try to load the directory.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 97

Answers (2)

AbsoluteƵERØ
AbsoluteƵERØ

Reputation: 7880

According to the RewriteRule Directive setion of the mod_rewrite manual :

In VirtualHost context, The Pattern will initially be matched against the part of the URL after the hostname and port, and before the query string (e.g. "/app1/index.html").

In Directory and htaccess context, the Pattern will initially be matched against the filesystem path, after removing the prefix that led the server to the current RewriteRule (e.g. "app1/index.html" or "index.html" depending on where the directives are defined).

If you wish to match against the hostname, port, or query string, use a RewriteCond with the %{HTTP_HOST}, %{SERVER_PORT}, or %{QUERY_STRING} variables respectively.

Unless there is a good reason for serving pages from /EVENTS/,/Events/,& /events/ you do not need the [NC] No Case declaration. So for .htaccess the rule looks like this:

RewriteRule ^events/([^/\.]+)/?$ events.php?eventdate=$1 [L]

In the VirtualHost context it would look like this:

RewriteRule ^/events/([^/\.]+)/?$ /events.php?eventdate=$1

Upvotes: 0

DannyB
DannyB

Reputation: 14776

I believe your problem is with your first slash.

This should work.

RewriteRule ^events/([^/\.]+)/?$ /events.php?eventdate=$1 [NC,L]

Upvotes: 2

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