directory as a variable

pablodelapena

sorry about all the empty posts last time i tried this, I dont have a clue what went wrong?

Anyway, as for my query as 2 days down the line i still ahve no idea.

Im trying to use mod_rewrite to rewrite a url (www.domain.com/pablo) as www.doain.com/index.php?user=pablo

This is the contents of my .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

Rewriteule ^(.*)$ test2.php?user=$1

why does this not work? the variable that gets passed to test2.php is 'test2.php' or nothing at all!!??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Pablo

rehfeld

that should work.

how are you retrieiving the value in the php script?

the data should be found in $_GET['user']

i noticed your rewriting to test2.php instead of index.php, maybe your updating the wrong php file.

do you have any other rewrite rules in your htaccess?

pablodelapena

yeah its all pointing to the correct file (i notioced a typo up there, i have the correct version: RewriteRule) in my .htaccess file.

Im calling the right variable aswell. See Apache finds the file but does not pass the variable. And when I try and echo out the variable $_GET['user'] it purely prints 'test2.php' Or whatever file is calling it... stuck!

rehfeld

in your php file, put this

echo '<pre>';
print_r($_SERVER);

then goto yourdomain.com/username and look through the different variables and thier values. im thinking your just overlooking something simple because the code really should work just fine.

if a light bulb doesnt turn on in your head after doing that and looking at the output, post the results of the print_r here, and please make sure its formatted using code tags so its easy for us to read.

pablodelapena

No lightbulbs are going, but something confuses me. In the $SERVER[REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING] it shows the query string I want to see, however in %SERVER[QUERY_STRING] it shows the filename of the file calling it!

I called URL:
http://127.0.0.1/XML-RPC/XML%20and%20PHP/pablo

where pablo is what i want to be the variable.

Here are the results regardless:

Array
(
[COMSPEC] => C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
[DOCUMENT_ROOT] => c:/program files/easyphp1-7/www
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => /
[HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip, deflate
[HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-gb
[HTTP_CONNECTION] => Keep-Alive
[HTTP_HOST] => 127.0.0.1
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
[PATH] => C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;c:\Python22;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\Panda Software\Panda Platinum Internet Security\
[REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING] => user=pablo
[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
[REDIRECT_URL] => /XML-RPC/XML and PHP/pablo
[REMOTE_ADDR] => 127.0.0.1
[REMOTE_PORT] => 1266
[SCRIPT_FILENAME] => c:/program files/easyphp1-7/www/xml-rpc/xml and php/test2.php
[SERVER_ADDR] => 127.0.0.1
[SERVER_ADMIN] => admin@localhost
[SERVER_NAME] => 127.0.0.1
[SERVER_PORT] => 80
[SERVER_SIGNATURE] => Apache/1.3.27 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

[SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/1.3.27 (Win32) PHP/4.3.3
[SystemRoot] => C:\WINDOWS
[WINDIR] => C:\WINDOWS
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
[SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1
[REQUEST_METHOD] => GET
[QUERY_STRING] => user=test2.php
[REQUEST_URI] => /XML-RPC/XML%20and%20PHP/pablo
[SCRIPT_NAME] => /xml-rpc/xml and php/test2.php
[PATH_TRANSLATED] => c:/program files/easyphp1-7/www/xml-rpc/xml and php/test2.php
[PHP_SELF] => /xml-rpc/xml and php/test2.php

)

rehfeld

i dunno.

try this


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Rewriteule ^(.*)$ test2.php?user=$1 [L]

also, check your php.ini
im thinking this has something to do w/ you running php as a cgi

theres some config directives in there that i would play around w/.
cgi.force_redirect
and
doc_root

and the other ones related to it. ive never configured php to run as a cgi so i cant really offer much help there, but this stuff just came to mind.

you could also try passing the value as an enviornment variable:


RewriteEngine On
Rewriteule ^(.*)$ test2.php [L,E=USER:$1]

then use getenv() in php

pablodelapena

neither of thoe 2 examples worked (with the typos fixed!) Is till get the filename being passed as the variable.

I havnt touched my php.ini or apache config files other than to enable the GD library since they were installed. Im not too keen about screwing around blindly with the config files as i really dont know what im doing. I just don't uderstand why this won't work?!