Mod_rewrite ???

[Blake121]

How the hell do you get mod_rewrite to work? it's just not happening for me.

I tried this:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/([0-9][0-9])/$  /blog.php?article_id=$1

I'm trying to change the URL http://www.theloop.org.uk/blog/blog.php?article_id=30 to http://www.theloop.org.uk/blog/30/ but it's just not happening.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? BTW the .htaccess file is in the /blog/ directory

[balaclave]

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$  /$1/ [R]
# redirect users who don't add an end slash to the page with a trailing slash
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/$  /blog.php?article_id=$1
# send to ugly URL

By using the + operator, you are catering for all numbers...e.g. 1 or 1000
If you just use ([0-9][0-9]) you are limiting the mod_rewrite to a two digit number.
Have you checked that mod_rewrite is enabled on your server?

[spinal007]

You've got the hang of mod_rewrite, what you need is to get comfy with regular expressions. here's a good website: http://www.regular-expressions.info/.

As for this...
http://www.theloop.org.uk/blog/blog.php?article_id=30 to http://www.theloop.org.uk/blog/30/
... I think you need this...
RewriteRule ^/blog/([0-9]+)/?$ /blog.php?article_id=$1
...which should take care of...
/blog/3
/blog/30
/blog/3/
/blog/30/

[Blake121]

They don't seem to work

I tried a few combinations but all I get is page not found.

I know PHP is loading the mod_wrote module as well. I checked in php info.

do you think it's something to do with this? "need to enable mod_rewrite and the FileInfo override in their httpd.conf file"

[balaclave]

Try this in your website's base directory.

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)$  /blog/$1/ [R]
# redirect users who don't add an end slash to the page with a trailing slash
RewriteRule ^blog/([0-9]+)/$  /blog/blog.php?article_id=$1
# send to ugly URL

[Blake121]

Yes! Got it working. Played about with it for a bit and finally got it going.

Thanks a lot guys.

check it out at www.theloop.org.uk/blog

does it work for you too?

[balaclave]

does it work for you too?

Yes!
What did you do to get it working?

[Blake121]

I simplified the rewrite rule to make it work at a really low level. e.g. switching between to .html files.

Then started working up the expression from there.

I added some directory's and stuff and eventually it just worked, I'm using the same rule I had in the first place as well which is really strange.

Just glad it works!