htaccess is redirecting incorrectly.

[Markus]

Why is it not working?

I joke. Here's the info:

In the folder C:\host\www\tes t, I have an .htaccess file. Inside that .htaccess file is the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test1.php$ /test2.php [R]
 

If I then go to the url htxp://localhost/test/test1.php, I am redirected to htxp://localhost/test2.php - I thought that this would redirect me to htxp://localhost/test/test2.php? Clearly not. If I removed the forward slash before the 'test2.php', I am redirected to htxp://localhost/C:/host/www/l/test2.php

I am running EasyPHP 3.

Here's the httpd.conf info that I think relates to this problem:

#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "${path}/www"
 
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories). 
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of 
# features.  
#
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride none
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Directory>
 
#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#
 
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "${path}/www">
    #
    # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
    # or any combination of:
    #   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
    #
    # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
    # doesn't give it to you.
    #
    # The Options directive is both complicated and important.  Please see
    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
    # for more information.
    #
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
 
    #
    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    #
    AllowOverride All
 
    #
    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
    #
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
 
</Directory>

[r035198x]

And what happens if you put

RewriteRule ^test1.php$ /test/test2.php [R]

?

[Markus]

Ah, yes. That works. I just thought that it would redirect to the same directory the htaccess file was in? I guess not.

Thanks, r0.