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phpapache.htaccessmod-rewriteurl-rewriting
Ben
Ben

Reputation: 9001

.htaccess Rewrite Rule not affecting GET on page

Sample Code

Here is a sample of my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^home/?$                index.php?intro=true [L]
RewriteRule ^home/([^/]*)$      index.php?location=$1&intro=true [L]

RewriteRule ^wedding/?$             wedding.php [L]
RewriteRule ^wedding/([^/]*)$       wedding.php?location=$1 [L]

And here is some sample code that is featured on both the index.php and wedding.php page:

index.php:

if(!$_GET["location"]) { $location = "London"; } else { $location = ucwords($_GET["location"]); }

[....]

<h1>Ben Pearl, <?php echo $location; ?> Magician</h1>

wedding.php:

if(!$_GET["location"]) { $location = "London"; } else { $location = ucwords($_GET["location"]); }

....

<h1><?php echo $location; ?> Wedding Magician</h1>

What is supposed to happen

The $location string should be effected by the $_GET value 'location'.

What is happening

The rewrite is working fine on index.php; if a user goes to example.com/home/place, $location is replaced by place.

However, on every other page (including the page with script pasted above), the string is replaced by "london", implying that the page hasn't received the $_GET data and the rewrite rule is not working correctly.

What's stranger is that the exact same code, unaltered, worked fine on my localhost.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 133

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143886

Try turning off Multiviews, which turns on mod_negotiation's "fuzzy" request URI to file mapping. When mod_negotiation sees /wedding/ and then it sees that there's a file /wedding.php, it'll kick in and send the request directly there, completely bypassing mod_rewrite and your rules.

On top of your htaccess file, add:

Options -Multiviews

That may also explain why it works for the rewrite to index.php, since /home doesn't look much like /index.php (whereas if you had a home.php, mod_negotiation would try to map to that instead).

Upvotes: 2

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