Quoted from xxclixxx

Ok long version:

1) I use modrewrite extensively. The folders I use do not exist at all. For example:
   http://www.clixnetwork.com/products/traffic-exchange/
   There is no folder "products". You don't need to create one.

2) I downloaded the zip with eblah in it and it doesn't have those options.

3) I'm hot, humid, hungry, and just want it to work with mod rewrite but I may just do it the old fashioned way and ping you.

Quoted from thanetm

i've got the mod_rewrite working, and everything is hunkydory if you go to http://www.smallcarsbighearts.co.uk/soapbox/

However, if you take that last '/' off it shows information in the address bar that i don't want people to see.

Any ideas what is going on?

Also, after adding this mod, when people registered the link in the e-mail to validate their address didn't work, so i updated the forum url in the admin settings, but couldn't put a forward slash on the end, so had to go into one of the files (can't remember which one now!) and edit the code. Just thought i would mention it in case other people had the same problem  ;D

ta muchly!

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Adding Trailing Slashes
If your site visitor had entered something like products/12, the rule above won’t do a redirect, as the slash at the end is missing. To promote good URL writing, we’ll take care of this by doing a direct redirect to the same URL with the slash appended.

RewriteRule ^products/([0-9][0-9])$ products/$1/ [R]

Multiple redirects in the same .htaccess file can be applied in sequence, which is what we’re doing here. This rule is added before the one we did above, like so:

RewriteRule ^products/([0-9][0-9])$ products/$1/ [R]
RewriteRule ^products/([0-9][0-9])/$ productinfo.php?prodID=$1

Thus, if the user types in the URL products/12, our first rule kicks in, rewriting the URL to include the trailing slash, and doing a new request for products/12/ so the user can see that we likes our trailing slashes around here. Then the second rule has something to match, and transparently redirects this URL to productinfo.php?prodID=12. Slick.

Quoted from riffplayer

I've been doing some research on mod_rewrite and here's something I found that might help:



You can see this and more info about Mod Rewrite at this website:  http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

Quoted from admin

In Blah.pl make it /forum/ not forum

Quoted from admin

Some servers don't allow that .htaccess to work.

Quoted from admin

Some servers don't allow that .htaccess to work.

Quoted from scrappy

Ok, then explain to me why your news on your home page works for you when you click on the message title, but when I do it on mine it doesn't work.  For what ever reason, I need that / at the end of the forum address.

Quoted from sundance

so did i...

I had to add the trailing slash to get the validation links to work properly in the emails.

Quoted from sundance

.htaccess looks like this:

Code Options All Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /forum RewriteRule ^(.*) /cgi-bin/bb/Blah.pl?$1

And the lines in Blah.pl looks like this:

Code $scriptname = '/forum/'; $modrewrite = ''; # mod_rewrite: on = '' | off = '?'

And the setting for the Global url looks like this:

Code $realurl = "http://mydomain.com/forum";

• News - /forum/forum inside the thread topic, Read Comments, Click here to read more links... but the links work. All other links on the portal page are fine.
  
• Change Password email - /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• Forum Validation email -  /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• PM notification email - /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• New Reply notification email - /forum/forum inside the links... but the links work.
  
• New Member email - /forum/Blah.pl and /forum/Blah.pl?v=admin,a=validate inside the links... but the links work.

Quoted from thanetm

i have the same problem - if you don't put a trailing slash on the end it shows all that information you'd rather was hidden.

Use: http://www.cheapestutilities.biz/forum/

and it behaves itself! i don't think anyone has answered why this is yet, and i just don't know enough about it!!

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Adding Trailing Slashes

If your site visitor had entered something like products/12, the rule above won’t do a redirect, as the slash at the end is missing. To promote good URL writing, we’ll take care of this by doing a direct redirect to the same URL with the slash appended.

RewriteRule ^products/([0-9][0-9])$ products/$1/ [R]

Multiple redirects in the same .htaccess file can be applied in sequence, which is what we’re doing here. This rule is added before the one we did above, like so:

RewriteRule ^products/([0-9][0-9])$ products/$1/ [R]
RewriteRule ^products/([0-9][0-9])/$ productinfo.php?prodID=$1

Thus, if the user types in the URL products/12, our first rule kicks in, rewriting the URL to include the trailing slash, and doing a new request for products/12/ so the user can see that we likes our trailing slashes around here. Then the second rule has something to match, and transparently redirects this URL to productinfo.php?prodID=12. Slick.