.htaccess Directory to File Redirection

[gazchap]

I'm trying to get a "virtual directory" (name given by myself 😉 ) to redirect to a PHP file using .htaccess. I'm not sure if I have mod_rewrite enabled.

Basically, I have an image gallery. The gallery display is powered by a file called gallery.php, which is passed a "gallery" variable in the query string to decide which gallery to show, i.e. gallery.php?gallery=2

I want to be able to link to http://www.whatever.com/gallery/galleryname (a directory) and have that redirect to the gallery.php?gallery=X (where X is the ID of that gallery)

I've tried:

Redirect /gallery/galleryname [url]http://www.whatever.com/gallery/gallery.php?gallery=2[/url]

But it doesn't work. Is this even possible?

[keith73]

first thing to do is check your httpd.conf file and look for mod_rewrite in the list of modules that are turned on.

second, go to http://httpd.apache.org/ and select your version of apache to learn how to use rewrite rules.

What you want to do is possible but will probably involve a lot of trial and error testing.

• keith

[gazchap]

I've checked my httpd.conf. mod_rewrite was disabled, so I've enabled that and restarted Apache.

I'm running on Windows 2003 by the way, don't know if it makes any difference.

I'm quite versed with regular expressions, but I thought I'd see if I could find a simple expression to see if mod_rewrite was actually working.

I placed:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^foo/?$ bar.php

into the .htaccess file in the document root, and tried to access http://localhost/foo

Apparently, this should say "The requested URL /bar.php was not found on this server".

But it doesn't, it says "The requested URL /foo was not found on this server."

There are no errors in the error log related to mod_rewrite, just the 404s on /foo and /404.htm.

Any help would be appreciated.