RewriteRule

[betty]

I have:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)$ ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 [NC]

rewrites domain.com/index?language= en&title=home to domain.com/en/home

Problem: to link to css-files, images etc I have to use '../' to go
into an upper folder, while this shouldn't be necessary. It is because
of de 'folder' 'en' which is in the address field of the browser.

Is there a possibility to resolve this?

Using '/' does not help, because the web app is not in the root.

Thanks in advance

[703designs]

On Nov 9, 9:05*am, betty <123be...@gmail .comwrote:

I have:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)$ ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 [NC]

rewrites domain.com/index?language= en&title=home to domain.com/en/home

Problem: to link to css-files, images etc I have to use '../' to go
into an upper folder, while this shouldn't be necessary. It is because
of de 'folder' 'en' which is in the address field of the browser.

Is there a possibility to resolve this?

Using '/' does not help, because the web app is not in the root.

Thanks in advance

Add this before the RewriteRule. It will effectively exclude files and
directories from the rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d

By the way, it may be easier for you to just use this RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query =$1 [L,QSA]

And parse $_GET['query'] using PHP. That's definitely more flexible.

Thomas

[Lshoshanna]

On Nov 9, 3:58*pm, 703designs <thomasmal...@g mail.comwrote:

Add this before the RewriteRule. It will effectively exclude files and
directories from the rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d

By the way, it may be easier for you to just use this RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query =$1 [L,QSA]

And parse $_GET['query'] using PHP. That's definitely more flexible.

Thomas

Thank you for your answer.

If I use RewriteCond, I still am having problems with linking files
like css.

Could you tell me how I would be able to 'parse $_GET['query'] using
PHP'? By looking for '/' and extract the values, or is there a better
way to do that?
Is it true that I still would need the RewriteCond?

[betty]

On Nov 9, 3:58*pm, 703designs <thomasmal...@g mail.comwrote:

On Nov 9, 9:05*am, betty <123be...@gmail .comwrote:

I have:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)$ ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 [NC]

rewrites domain.com/index?language= en&title=home to domain.com/en/home

Problem: to link to css-files, images etc I have to use '../' to go
into an upper folder, while this shouldn't be necessary. It is because
of de 'folder' 'en' which is in the address field of the browser.

Is there a possibility to resolve this?

Using '/' does not help, because the web app is not in the root.

Thanks in advance

Add this before the RewriteRule. It will effectively exclude files and
directories from the rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d

By the way, it may be easier for you to just use this RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query =$1 [L,QSA]

And parse $_GET['query'] using PHP. That's definitely more flexible.

Thomas

On Nov 9, 3:58 pm, 703designs <thomasmal...@g mail.comwrote:

Add this before the RewriteRule. It will effectively exclude files and
directories from the rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d

By the way, it may be easier for you to just use this RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query =$1 [L,QSA]

And parse $_GET['query'] using PHP. That's definitely more flexible.

Thomas

Thank you for your answer.

If I use RewriteCond, I still am having problems with linking files
like css.

With using ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 I can extract the value language by
doing $_GET['language'].
Could you tell me how I would be able to 'parse $_GET['query'] using
PHP'? By looking for '/' and extract the values, or is there a better
way to do that?

Is it true that I still would need the RewriteCond?

[703designs]

On Nov 9, 10:31*am, betty <123be...@gmail .comwrote:

On Nov 9, 3:58*pm, 703designs <thomasmal...@g mail.comwrote:

On Nov 9, 9:05*am, betty <123be...@gmail .comwrote:

I have:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)$ ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 [NC]

rewrites domain.com/index?language= en&title=home to domain.com/en/home

Problem: to link to css-files, images etc I have to use '../' to go
into an upper folder, while this shouldn't be necessary. It is because
of de 'folder' 'en' which is in the address field of the browser.

Is there a possibility to resolve this?

Using '/' does not help, because the web app is not in the root.

Thanks in advance

Add this before the RewriteRule. It will effectively exclude files and
directories from the rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d

By the way, it may be easier for you to just use this RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query =$1 [L,QSA]

And parse $_GET['query'] using PHP. That's definitely more flexible.

Thomas

On Nov 9, 3:58 pm, 703designs <thomasmal...@g mail.comwrote:

Add this before the RewriteRule. It will effectively exclude files and
directories from the rewrite:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILEN AME} !-d
By the way, it may be easier for you to just use this RewriteRule:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?query =$1 [L,QSA]
And parse $_GET['query'] using PHP. That's definitely more flexible.
Thomas

Thank you for your answer.

If I use RewriteCond, I still am having problems with linking files
like css.

With using ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 I can extract the value language by
doing $_GET['language'].
Could you tell me how I would be able to 'parse $_GET['query'] using
PHP'? By looking for '/' and extract the values, or is there a better
way to do that?

Is it true that I still would need the RewriteCond?

I think that the easiest way is to use split, as in:

$params = split("/", $_GET['query']);
http://us3.php.net/split

In this case, URLs would be written like this:
/language/title
and be mapped to
/index.php?query =language/title

Thomas

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betty escribió:

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)$ ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 [NC]

rewrites domain.com/index?language= en&title=home to domain.com/en/home

Problem: to link to css-files, images etc I have to use '../' to go
into an upper folder, while this shouldn't be necessary. It is because
of de 'folder' 'en' which is in the address field of the browser.

Is there a possibility to resolve this?

Using '/' does not help, because the web app is not in the root.

The browser doesn't know/care about the server's disk layout. If you add
slashes to the URL you *are* adding directory levels. So you have
several alternatives:

1. Replace slashes with anything else:

http://example.com/en-home

2. Fix your relative URLs, adding "../" as you said; it *is* necessary.

3. Build absolute URLs. PHP is a programming language, it should not be
a big issue to replace / with the appropriate value for your system ;-)
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[Papkin]

betty wrote:

>I have:
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)$ ?language=$1&ti tle=$2 [NC]

I have had this problem ...

Just use <basehtml tag and problem should go away :-) Or use full URI in your
css include path etc.

[betty]

Thanks to all for helping out.

I use now:
<base href="http://
<? echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
echo substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0,
strrpos($_SERVE R['SCRIPT_NAME'], '/'));
?>
/" />
<link rel="stylesheet " href="css/main.css" type="text/css" />
Using only <base /is not good: when moving the website to another
folder, I have to change <base />.
Using only PHP to find the root folder, isn't good too: I have to put
it everywhere in the file when linking to a file like css or image.

SO I'm using a combination of both.

Is using $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] and $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] the
safest?