FW: [PHP] Ensuring all links go to index.php

> PHP List, > > This problem is a little hard to describe. Please forgive me in advance > if it's not clear. > > I have set up my .htaccess file to work with my PHP script to create > "friendly URLs". > > For example, the URL mysite.com/user/login will take the user to a page > where a user logs in. > > It does this by stripping everything out except "user" and "login". It > takes "user" and creates a "user" object, and then passes a > "login" > method to that class to take the user to the login page. > > Somehow, in this process, the local URL is becoming "mysite/user", even > though I'm just using that "user" designation to drive the creation of > objects from classes. > > So, for example, I have a link to logout which is simply > href="user/logout". > > But when I mouse over it, and look at the status bar at the bottom of my > FireFox browser window, it says that the link points to: > mysite.com/user/user/logout > > That URL, obviously, doesn't work for my system. It tries to make a > "User" object and call a "user" method which doesn't exist. > > So... my question is, why is the /user portion of my URL being retained > as a directory? If the URL is as you describe, this should be href="/user/logout". Without the preceeding slash, this will only work from pages with a URL in the root of your site. > > I thought it had something to do with setting headers. I want everything > to operate through the index.php file in my root directory, so I thought > I could do that by putting this at the top of the index.php page: > > header("Location: /"); > > Or: > > header("/local/server/www/directory/"); > > Bottom line is, how do I ensure that all links and user requests through > the URL end up going to the index.php in my web site's root directory? > If your using headers to set the location, you need to provide a full URL, inc. protocol and domain. i.e. http://www.example.com/page.php Edward