Search engine friendly urls

[Debbie-Leigh]

Hi,

I have written an url rewriting script (without using mod_write) that replaces urls like:

../path/page.php?parm1=a&parm2=b

with:

../path/page.php/parm1=a/parm2=b

It works fine now, but I found that to get the destination pages to work properly, I had to put a 'base' meta tag into each page with the full domain name in it. If I left this out the browser didn't seem to be able to find things like the css file etc. in the destination page, even though the url parameters were passed properly and were usable in the destination page's script.

I would rather not have to use the base tag as that kind of defeats the purpose of using relative urls doesn't it? So does anyone know of a way to get the browser to understand the relative links to the css files etc. in the destination page without having to use the base tag?

Thanks if anyone can help.

Debbie-Leigh

[drawmack]

the problem is that you're relative directory structure changes based on the number of parameters you pass. How I overcame this is by counting the number of / in the URL and the prepending a ../ to all relative references within the document for each / in the url. This automates the process so the script is still moveable.

[superwormy]

You could also just start all your URLs with a /, which is the equivalent to adding a base href http://www.yourdomain.com/ tag...