mod_rewrite messing up the site navigation links

Question

On my main page, the navigation links are as follows:

• localhost/inventory/add
• localhost/inventory/view

The code for those are:

<a href='add'>Add Record</a>
<a href='view'>View Records</a>

and my .htaccess file is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ ./index.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?/([^/\.]+)/?$ ./index.php?url=$1&id=$2 [L]

The problem I am having is that for the records, there is an edit link that takes them to:

• localhost/inventory/edit/1

For record one, and the code for that link is:

<a href='edit/1'>Edit</a>

Which is fine, except now the navigation links take them to:

• localhost/inventory/edit/add
• localhost/inventory/edit/view

Because it thinks it is in an 'edit' directory.

Does anyone know of an idea to overcome this problem?

Thank you!

Answer 1

This probably not because .htaccess, but the difference between relative versus absolute links. That is to say your navigation links should probably be prefixed with /, like:

<a href='/inventory/add'>Add Record</a>