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I think the only issue is that you've not escaped the hyphen in the character class [A-Za-z0-9-]+, try replacing it with this [A-Za-z0-9\-]+ and see if that works. If not, we can work from there.

Tim Stone 2010-06-25 14:22:46

Thanks... I tried it and it still didn't work.

John 2010-06-25 14:46:58

What happens instead? You get a 404 or 500 error, or? Also, where is your `.htaccess` file located in relation to your `comments` directory?

Tim Stone 2010-06-25 14:56:11

In Chrome, it's just a white page that says "PAGE NOT FOUND" with some other verbiage. I put the .htaccess file in both the comments directory and the one just above it. Do I need to enable mod_rewrite or something?

John 2010-06-25 15:05:08

Based on the way your rewrite rule is set up, you only need to put the `.htaccess` file in the directory above the `comments` directory. I *think* the rules should cause an 'Internal Server Error' if `mod_rewrite` isn't enabled, but you can check to be sure with a more obvious 'does-it-work-rule', e.g. `RewriteRule comments/.* http://stackoverflow.com/` if you don't have access to the `http.conf`.

Tim Stone 2010-06-25 15:26:40

I see now in Chrome that I am getting a 404 error. I just called my hosting company and they said that mod_rewrite is enabled.

John 2010-06-25 15:32:10

Do you have access to the error/access logs in your account? The rewrite rule works fine for me using the setup you've described, so there has to be something else going wrong.

Tim Stone 2010-06-25 17:55:32

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I tested it and this one works:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^comments/([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)?$ comments/index.php?id=$2 [NC,L]

Bogdan Constantinescu 2010-06-25 14:30:41

Thanks... but when I tried this it still didn't work.

John 2010-06-25 14:47:23

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