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PHP

Posted by Alzee Inc
Alzee Inc
5,894 Points

Rewrite Rule doesn't work (PHP course)

Hey,

I'm trying to solve this problem for a few days now. I also posted in an older subject, but nobody responded, so I decided to create my own post (I hope that doesn't cause any problem). So, these are my rewrite rules:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^/shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php

I use XAMPP, I have my .htaccess at the root of htdocs directory. I'm sure .htaccess is read because I get an error if I write something strange. The mod_rewrite was already enabled and I changed the AllowOveride to All. I did restart Apache after the changes.

But still, if I go to localhost/shirts, I get the "menu" with the two files. If I go to shirts/shirts.php, it does load but with the images, which is different from the video (Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rule).

Did I miss something?

1 Answer

Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points
Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points

Hi Jorge,

First of all, you need to remove the slash after the ^ sign.

So, if your project is directly in the htdocs folder, the rewrite rule should be:

RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php

If your project is in any sub-folder of the htdocs folder, you need to include the sub-folder in your rule. Like this:

RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /subfolder/shirts/shirts.php

Hope that helps.

Alzee Inc
Alzee Inc
5,894 Points

Hi,

Thanks for answering! I did this, but it's still the same, do you have any other idea? There's another thing, but I don't know if it's relevant or not. I have two files in this shirts subfolder, shirts and shirt_detail. Whenever I try to go to shirt_detail, I'm redirected to shirts, so i suppose my rewrite rule somewhat works..

Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points
Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points

Can you upload your files and folders in a workspace and share the link?

Alzee Inc
Alzee Inc
5,894 Points

All of them? Or just the shirts folder and the .htacces?

Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points
Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points

What's the name of your project folder?

Alzee Inc
Alzee Inc
5,894 Points

PHP - Frog Site I'm not sure how to share the link of a workspace, sorry :/

Alzee Inc
Alzee Inc
5,894 Points

https://w.trhou.se/mylz1k59y4 Thanks :)!

Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points
Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points

I don't understand. Your htaccess file shows as _htaccess instead of .htaccess.

Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points
Placid Rodrigues
Placid Rodrigues
12,630 Points

I think your shirt_detail.php page is redirecting to shirts.php with header('Location: shirts.php') that's inside your shirt_detail.php file. It is not due to RewriteRule.

Alzee Inc
Alzee Inc
5,894 Points

Oh crap, I wrote it the correct way the first time, but i did a lot of changes after and didn't see this. Thank you very much!!