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How to use apache's mod_rewrite rewriterule without changing relative paths

Answer 1

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If you change the rewite rule to do a force redirect (add the [R] option), then the browser will be using the /groupdetail.php URL and the relative links will work fine. However, that adds one redirect and makes the URLs less pretty.

RewriteRule ^groups/([^/.]+)/?$ groupdetail.php?gname=$1 [L,NC,R]

Kevin Hakanson 2008-09-27 22:59:28

Kevin, yes that would work but I want to URL to the user to look like "www.example.com/groups/groupname" so I don't want to use [R]/redirect.

2008-09-28 16:09:08

Answer 2

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Relative links are resolved by the browser, not the server, so there is nothing you can do with mod_rewrite.

Either use relative links the go up the hierarchy (../link.php) or use absolute links.

hop 2008-10-01 01:18:20

so, could somebody please enlighten me, as to how this answer is wrong or bad?

hop 2008-12-23 13:48:43

hop, I agree that your comment does not deserver the -4 it got, I've given you an upvote.

Toby Allen 2009-02-15 09:44:17

strange things happen to this answer... now it's suddenly -1 again from only one upvote? ...anyway, maybe i'm wrong, but if so, i'd like to know why!

hop 2009-02-16 17:44:54

Answer 3

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If like me you had hundreds of relative links in the page, insert a <base href=""> in the <head> with an absolute path (could use relative too). You'll need to also make the path to .js files in the <head> absolute because IE and firefox deal with the base href differently. I agree it is an annoying issue.

2008-10-15 22:24:56

Answer 4

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Hop's answer is correct. The browser sees www.example.com/groups/groupname as the address, so considers that /groups is the current directory. So, any links like <a href=link.php> are assumed to be in the /groups folder.

When the user moves his mouse over the link, he'll see www.example.com/groups/link.php as the link address.

The solution is to use absolute links -- just add a slash before the href:

<a href=/link.php>

The user will then see www.example.com/link.php as the url.

That said, it seems from your question that you are using relative links on purpose... do you have a reason not to use absolute links?

Andrew Swift 2009-03-04 05:49:54

Answer 5

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You can use the BASE tag, if you don't want to use absolute paths:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag%5Fbase.asp

Razvan 2009-12-30 14:40:17

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