I think I need a ReWrite ...

zzz

I thnink I do need a reWrite unless someone can give me a bettre suggestion.

I have a directory:

http://mysite.com/mydirectory/otherdir/more_stuff

I need to make it in such a way that when someone just enters

http://mysite.com/mydirectory or http://mysite.com/mydirectory/

to actually resolve the page in http://mysite.com/mydirectory/otherdir/more_stuff

I've tried adding this to .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^mydirectory$ /mydirectory/otherdir/more_stuff [L]

but it did not work.

Not sure how to do it...

:glare:

greenie2600

This is an Apache issue, not a PHP issue. You might have better luck in an Apache-specific forum.

leatherback

Hi,

It should in theory work.

Have you added:

Options +FollowSymLinks

Switch on the rewrite module

RewriteEngine On

rewrite now

RewriteRule ^{(/)?mydirectory(/)?$} /mydirectory/otherdir/more_stuff [L]

Also, make sure in you apache config to switch on the rewrite_log, and level 5. Clean the log, load the page, and see what the rewrite is doing. It might help. What error are you getting?

zzz

Yes, it should work, except I noticed there's already a set of rules there that probably messing up my rewrite. I'm not that knowledgeable with the rewrites to try to figure that one out. I guess I'll just let it be for now.

Thanks for the suggestions.

leatherback

OK, no problem. When you decide you do want to do it, switch the rewrite log on, and clean it, and use it. It helped me a lot to understand what the rewrite is doing, as you get quite detailed information on how the rules are applied.

scrupul0us

not to hijack, but since leather seems to be versed in mod_rewrite, how would i add a trailing slash to any url? since im on linux, if someone goes to the directory /test/ but forgets the slash, linux tries to load the file test that doesnt exist... how can add that slash with mod_rewrite?

leatherback

Hehe,

I am actually ABSOLUTELY NOT comfortable with mod_rewrite. Just happened to spent more than an healthy amount of time on figuring this stuff out, to the point that I even cheated, and registered and posted at webmasterwold to colve some issues.

ONE of them was a trailing slash issue, which I was told, should not be an issue..

That being said..

Make sure you set a maximum number of rewrites, otherwise you may mess up your server, and require to force it out of a never-ending loop, if I missed something!! ALWAYS try these things on a dev. server first!!

try:

try to match for the uri, NOT ending with php, or a slash

and rewrite to the same stuff WITH trailing slash

We math the URI against an optional series of characters,

ended with php or a trailing slash. If this does NOT match, rewrite

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(.)?(php|/)$
rewriteRule ^(.)$ (.*)/