Wont work on 1.3 but it is working on 2.2.4

[nikolic]

Hello all.
i have a pretty serious problem on live web site. Currently web site is down and alli know is that .htaccess caused this problem.
I work on my local machine and i have Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) installed. All works fine.
So i uploaded over 80 files on web server, and at the end i uploaded .htaccess and then web site stopped working.

Error i got from technical support is:

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RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^ankete-([A-Za-z0-9-_*%]+)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$'\n

Web server is working on Apache 1.3

There is my .htaccess file:

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ankete-([A-Za-z0-9-_*]+)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ i2.php?tabid=$2&portalid=$3&pollid=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^event-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ i2.php?tabid=$1&portalid=$2&month=$3&year=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^kalendar-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ i2.php?event=$3&tabid=$1&portalid=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^Sitemap-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)?$ i2.php?a=sitemap&tabid=$1&portalid=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^page-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)?$ i2.php?pg=$3&tabid=$1&portalid=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^Galerija-([A-Za-z0-9-_*%]+)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)?$ i2.php?a=viewPhotoCat&tabid=$2&portalid=$3&catID=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-_*]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ i2.php?a=readMore&tabid=$2&portalid=$3&cid=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ i2.php?pismo=$3&tabid=$1&portalid=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([A-Z]*).*-([0-9]*).*-([0-9]*).*?$ i2.php?tabid=$2&portalid=$3 [L]


Once more to mention that it is working on apache 2.2.4 on wamp i have installed.
It is very urgent for me so i would appreciate any help.
Thanks a lot,
Vladimir

[nikolic]

i deleted qeustion mark at the end of regular and it works...
Now i am interested why question mark caused a problem
Also, is there a better way to do this rewriting so urls be more friendly?

eg. www.domain.com/some_article/
www.domain.com/calendar/
and so on...

Also i noticed that when i am using slashes in my rules i am getting the page but without any css rules on it.

So if i write a rule as:

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RewriteRule ^ankete/([A-Za-z0-9-_*]+)/([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)?$ i2.php?tabid=$2&portalid=$3&pollid=$4 [L]


it wont work... works only with - sign.

[richardk]

i deleted qeustion mark at the end of regular and it works...
Now i am interested why question mark caused a problem

The ungreedy syntax is not supported with older versions of Apache. This is due to the regular expression library.

Also, is there a better way to do this rewriting so urls be more friendly?

eg. www.domain.com/some_article/
www.domain.com/calendar/
and so on...

That depends how much work you want to put in to it. What exactly are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to remove variables from the URL?

Also i noticed that when i am using slashes in my rules i am getting the page but without any css rules on it.

Relative paths to images, JavaScript, CSS and other external/linked files are broken.

[nikolic]

Hello Richard,
Thanks for your reply.
What i want to achieve are links which are more friendly to user.
I will put a lot of efforts to achieve that and i am wiling to learn as much as i can about mod_rewrite.

I have a lot of diferent trailing parameters in my urls.
Eg. i2.php?tabid=1&portalid=2&tabindex=1
i2.php?tabid=1&portalid=2&tabindex=4&a=readMore&cid=34
i2.php?tabid=1&portalid=2&tabindex=3&modid=22&a=viewEdit
i2.php?tabid=1&portalid=2&tabindex=5&year=2008&moth=5&day=12 // this one shows specific day in the mont for calendar module
i2.php?tabid=1&portalid=2&tabindex=7&month=5&day=1&year=2008// this one shows whole month for calendar module
So i have a few urls with same number of paramteres in url, but they do diferent things.
Application is based on 'tabid'(id of menu) and on modid(id of module which is used on specific menu)
Now if i have Content module(which can have n articles(everyone have own id)) i need to have url like www.domain.com/menuname/contentModuleNa ... leName(url looks like-i2.php?tabid=1&portalid=2&a=readMore&cid=12) if i am on very article, or www.domain.com/menuName/contentModuleNa ... tabindex=2 ) if i am on the page where all articles of this module are.
After i did some rewriting my urls looks like- www.domain.com/Menu_Name-1-1-1 or www.domain.com/article_name-1-1-2-32

I hope i explained what i want to achieve here and sorry if i am not clear enough, english is not my mother tongue tho.

Best regards,
Vladimir

[richardk]

So you are trying to change numbers into words. See: How to change a numeric ID into a name/title.