The rewrite is pointing to a different location... pls help

[ash]

Hi all,

I am very new to the rewrite but am trying to get a re-direction as follows:

http://www.mysite.com/Collections/SpringSummer2009/LookBook

to go to

http://www.mysite.com/collections-spring09-lb.php

I have added the following entry in the htaccess


RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^Collections/SpringSummer2009/LookBook$ /collection-spring09-lb.php

but for some reason it is changing the root to another sub-directory and as a result the images and includes are not loading.

Your help in this would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[richardk]

FAQ: Relative paths to images, JavaScript, CSS and other external/linked files are broken. The easiest solution is probably the HTML <base> element.

[ash]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your response. I have tried this and it does work to some extent with all the images and include files however, what I am having a serious problem with is the SQL connection file which are defined as

../../SQLconnect.inc.php

in the config.inc.php file of the site. There is no way to implement a change to the relative paths of these files without having an effect on all the files on the site.

Do you think that there are any other options I can explore apart from re-coding the paths in PHP.

Many thanks.

[richardk]

Mod_rewrite and the URL should not affect internal PHP include()s as they are relative to the actual file whatever the URL is and are requested through the servers filesystem not the through Apache.

Are you sure this is the problem?
Are you using PHP with CGI?

I don't think there's any mod_rewrite fix for this. A PHP base constant would be best.