UrlRewrite htaccess confusion

[Rob Gould]

I feel like I'm really close to a solution for the clean-url method in  
htaccess.  I've successfully got it now so that:

http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game

maps to:

http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game

However, I'm finding that when I click on subsequent links from:

http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game

that I land in a strange url-structure where it replicates the  
packages part of the url.

Can someone tell me what I might need to change about my rewrite logic  
to fix this issue?  I'm getting lost in the world of base urls and  
recursive rewrites...


Present htaccess code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^packages/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ /packages.php?category=
$1&year=$2&title=$3 [NC]

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[Shawn McKenzie]

Rob Gould wrote:

> I feel like I'm really close to a solution for the clean-url method in
> htaccess.  I've successfully got it now so that:
>
> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game
>
> maps to:
>
> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game
>
>
> However, I'm finding that when I click on subsequent links from:
>
> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game
>
> that I land in a strange url-structure where it replicates the packages
> part of the url.
>
> Can someone tell me what I might need to change about my rewrite logic
> to fix this issue?  I'm getting lost in the world of base urls and
> recursive rewrites...
>

It's hard to tell without seeing the link and/or what code you use to
generate it, but off the top of my head I would say that it's not a
rewrite issue.  It seems to be an issue with using relative URLs in your
links.  If you are on this page (this is in your browser address bar):
http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game

The browser will interpret all relative links like 'somefile.php' as:
http://benchwarmersports.com/somefile.php

But if you use your rewritten URL, then the browser will see relative
links as one of the following (not sure which without testing):

http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game/somefile.php

--or--

http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/somefile.php

This is because it is interpreting the slashes as path separators.  You
probably need to generate absolute URLs in your links.

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[Rob Gould]

You are indeed correct!  Absolute URLs for everything, images, css,  
javascript, and links fixed the issue.  Took me forever to change  
every link in the whole site, but it's happy now.  Seems like there  
ought to be an easier way.


On Oct 29, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote:

> Rob Gould wrote:
>> I feel like I'm really close to a solution for the clean-url method  
>> in
>> htaccess.  I've successfully got it now so that:
>>
>> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game
>>
>> maps to:
>>
>> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game
>>
>>
>> However, I'm finding that when I click on subsequent links from:
>>
>> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game
>>
>> that I land in a strange url-structure where it replicates the  
>> packages
>> part of the url.
>>
>> Can someone tell me what I might need to change about my rewrite  
>> logic
>> to fix this issue?  I'm getting lost in the world of base urls and
>> recursive rewrites...
>>
>
> It's hard to tell without seeing the link and/or what code you use to
> generate it, but off the top of my head I would say that it's not a
> rewrite issue.  It seems to be an issue with using relative URLs in  
> your
> links.  If you are on this page (this is in your browser address bar):
> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game
>
> The browser will interpret all relative links like 'somefile.php' as:
> http://benchwarmersports.com/somefile.php
>
> But if you use your rewritten URL, then the browser will see relative
> links as one of the following (not sure which without testing):
>
> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game/somefile.php
>
> --or--
>
> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/somefile.php
>
> This is because it is interpreting the slashes as path separators.  
> You
> probably need to generate absolute URLs in your links.
>
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> Thanks!
> -Shawn
> http://www.spidean.com

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[Ashley Sheridan-3]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 11:26 -0400, Rob Gould wrote:

> You are indeed correct!  Absolute URLs for everything, images, css,  
> javascript, and links fixed the issue.  Took me forever to change  
> every link in the whole site, but it's happy now.  Seems like there  
> ought to be an easier way.
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
>
> > Rob Gould wrote:
> >> I feel like I'm really close to a solution for the clean-url method  
> >> in
> >> htaccess.  I've successfully got it now so that:
> >>
> >> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game
> >>
> >> maps to:
> >>
> >> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game
> >>
> >>
> >> However, I'm finding that when I click on subsequent links from:
> >>
> >> http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game
> >>
> >> that I land in a strange url-structure where it replicates the  
> >> packages
> >> part of the url.
> >>
> >> Can someone tell me what I might need to change about my rewrite  
> >> logic
> >> to fix this issue?  I'm getting lost in the world of base urls and
> >> recursive rewrites...
> >>
> >
> > It's hard to tell without seeing the link and/or what code you use to
> > generate it, but off the top of my head I would say that it's not a
> > rewrite issue.  It seems to be an issue with using relative URLs in  
> > your
> > links.  If you are on this page (this is in your browser address bar):
> > http://benchwarmersports.com/packages.php?category=basketball&year=2010&title=nba-all-star-game
> >
> > The browser will interpret all relative links like 'somefile.php' as:
> > http://benchwarmersports.com/somefile.php
> >
> > But if you use your rewritten URL, then the browser will see relative
> > links as one of the following (not sure which without testing):
> >
> > http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game/somefile.php
> >
> > --or--
> >
> > http://benchwarmersports.com/packages/basketball/2010/somefile.php
> >
> > This is because it is interpreting the slashes as path separators.  
> > You
> > probably need to generate absolute URLs in your links.
> >
> > --
> > Thanks!
> > -Shawn
> > http://www.spidean.com
>
>

There is, use the <base> tag in your HTML. Don't forget that while
you're rewriting the URLs, all the work is being done server-side. The
browser thinks that the location of the document it is being served is
in the path that the user typed into the location bar, so all relative
links are relative to that.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

[Shawn McKenzie]

Rob Gould wrote:
> You are indeed correct!  Absolute URLs for everything, images, css,
> javascript, and links fixed the issue.  Took me forever to change every
> link in the whole site, but it's happy now.  Seems like there ought to
> be an easier way.
>

There is an easier way.  The logic depends upon your app, but create a
function that builds and optionally echos URLs for you.  It can work out
the base url or you can do that when you initialize your app and define
it as a constant.  It can be as simple or as complex as you need.

<a href="<?php makelink($file, $arrayOfVars); ?>">Something</a>

-- or --

echo '<a href="' . makelink($file, $arrayOfVars) . '">Something</a>';

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[Shawn McKenzie]

Shawn McKenzie wrote:

> Rob Gould wrote:
>> You are indeed correct!  Absolute URLs for everything, images, css,
>> javascript, and links fixed the issue.  Took me forever to change every
>> link in the whole site, but it's happy now.  Seems like there ought to
>> be an easier way.
>>
>
> There is an easier way.  The logic depends upon your app, but create a
> function that builds and optionally echos URLs for you.  It can work out
> the base url or you can do that when you initialize your app and define
> it as a constant.  It can be as simple or as complex as you need.
>
> <a href="<?php makelink($file, $arrayOfVars); ?>">Something</a>
>
> -- or --
>
> echo '<a href="' . makelink($file, $arrayOfVars) . '">Something</a>';
>

Or the simplist approach is to define at constant at app initialization
and use it:

echo '<a href="' . BASEURL .
'packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game">Something</a>';

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[Martin Scotta]

You can use a regexp for search and replace in your files.

packages.php?category=([^&]+)&year=([^&]+)&title=([^&]+)

The problem is those values are variables on the code.

As Shawn said, it is easier to provide some function to create links.If you
need to change all links you only change the function and the work is done.

cheers,

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@...>wrote:

> Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> > Rob Gould wrote:
> >> You are indeed correct!  Absolute URLs for everything, images, css,
> >> javascript, and links fixed the issue.  Took me forever to change every
> >> link in the whole site, but it's happy now.  Seems like there ought to
> >> be an easier way.
> >>
> >
> > There is an easier way.  The logic depends upon your app, but create a
> > function that builds and optionally echos URLs for you.  It can work out
> > the base url or you can do that when you initialize your app and define
> > it as a constant.  It can be as simple or as complex as you need.
> >
> > <a href="<?php makelink($file, $arrayOfVars); ?>">Something</a>
> >
> > -- or --
> >
> > echo '<a href="' . makelink($file, $arrayOfVars) . '">Something</a>';
> >
>
> Or the simplist approach is to define at constant at app initialization
> and use it:
>
> echo '<a href="' . BASEURL .
> 'packages/basketball/2010/nba-all-star-game">Something</a>';
>
> --
> Thanks!
> -Shawn
> http://www.spidean.com
>
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[Paul M Foster]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:26:10PM -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote:

> Rob Gould wrote:
> > You are indeed correct!  Absolute URLs for everything, images, css,
> > javascript, and links fixed the issue.  Took me forever to change every
> > link in the whole site, but it's happy now.  Seems like there ought to
> > be an easier way.
> >
>
> There is an easier way.  The logic depends upon your app, but create a
> function that builds and optionally echos URLs for you.  It can work out
> the base url or you can do that when you initialize your app and define
> it as a constant.  It can be as simple or as complex as you need.
>
> <a href="<?php makelink($file, $arrayOfVars); ?>">Something</a>
>
> -- or --
>
> echo '<a href="' . makelink($file, $arrayOfVars) . '">Something</a>';

+1

I initialize a "links" class from the config, and then use it to serve
up link text and URLs depending on the parameters I give it.

Paul

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