Whats changed with 5.5 mod_rewrite not working now.

[Garrynz]

Hi, firstly call me fussy or what ever but I have changed all my search engine freindly URL's to /photos/showgallery/cat/1.php instead of showgallery.php/cat/1 and every version before this one I have had no problems now when going to /photos/showgallery/cat/1.php it shows all photos ( Custom View ). This is not a mod_rewrite error as if I change to normal urls i.e showgallery.php?cat=1 and then try /photos/showgallery/cat/1.php it works fine. What has changed? I have been racking my brain for hours now.

[Chuck S]

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/show...hp/cat/504.php

its an error in whatever your doing as nothing has changed

[Garrynz]

that doesn't work as such http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/show...hp/cat/504.php is different to http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/504

What if you put this into your .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^showgallery/cat/([a-zA-Z0-9]*).php$ showgallery.php?cat=$1 [L,NC]

and try http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/showgallery/cat/504.php

There is no reason I can see why it wouldn't work, but I bet if you tried it you will come to that Home » Custom View page instead of Home » ReefTalk Gallery » Reefs yet type showgallery.php?cat=504 into the URL it will show the correct page. Or change the mod_rewrite to

RewriteRule ^showgallery/yadayada/([a-zA-Z0-9]*).php$ showgallery.php?cat=$1

and go to http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/show...dayada/504.php it will show the correct page!

[Garrynz]

Its not to much of a big deal as I am changing the normal url's i.e

$cats['catlink'][$catcount] = "<a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/$whichcat.php?cat=$id\">{$CatPerms['catname'][$id]}</a>";

to

$cats['catlink'][$catcount] = "<a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/$whichcat/cat/$id.php\">{$CatPerms['catname'][$id]}</a>";

and it works, just strange how it now wont work with spider friendly url's whereas it did before this version.

[Chuck S]

What I am saying is it clearly works just placing the .php on the end brings up the CUSTOM VIEW so that does not break the page

Your issue is clearly within your MOD REWRITE or whatever your trying to do and not something with our script

[Garrynz]

Oh dear,I give up. Yeah the script is perfect and my mod_rewite is wrong :/

[Chuck S]

The example you give says if you put .php on the cat number it should bring up a custom view and the link I placed shows that that does work fine so I fail to see what your trying to say.

The script is perfect how we write it and performs as such. Your question has to do with doing a hack your doing and nothing with out script functionality. You may post a mod discussion in THE MOD CORNER should you wish to pursue discussion on why your CODE MODIFICATION is not working.

[Garrynz]

Yes it does work perfectly but something has changed between 5.3 and 5.5 that deals with spider friendly URL's. No if you put /showgallery/cat/948.php it should bring up the actual category like http://www.itraveluk.co.uk/photos/sh...ry/cat/948.php not the custom page which it does with 5.5

[Chuck S]

Well nothing has changed in spider urls at all between 5.3 and 5.5 that I see as it is the same as we have always used. Given the discussion here that deals with something outside the program I would suggest you discuss this in the mod corner

[Garrynz]

Ok, I will try and figure it out. But like i said it's no biggie as it works with spider friendly url's off and just involves more hacking.