Re: Apache Rewrite Issues

----- Original Message ---- > From: Russell Seymour <russell.seymour@turtlesystems.co.uk> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Sent: Wed, October 7, 2009 3:52:00 AM > Subject: [PHP] Apache Rewrite Issues > > Morning, > > I am trying to make my URLs more search engine friendly and I have come up > against a problem. > > I want the following URL: > > mysite.example.com/articles/Test Story > > to be proxied to > > mysite.example.com/index.php?m=articles&t=Test%20Story > Russell, Consider using a string function to replace the space with _ to be really SEF/SEO when generating the URL. Thus, your problem also disappears ;) Regards, Tommy > I have the following rule in my Apache conf > > RewriteRule ^/articles/(.*) index.php?m=articles&t=$1 [P,L] > > Now if I run with this configuration, PHP strips the query string back at the > space, so my query string ends up looking like > > [QUERY_STRING] => m=articles&t=Test > > even though the log file for the rewrite shows that the full query is being > passed. > > But if I change the RewriteRule to be a Rewrite instead of a Proxy I get > > [QUERY_STRING] => m=articles&t=Test%20Story > > So something is happening when the system is proxying the request. > Adding %20 into the URL does not fix the problem when proxy is enabled either. > > I have search around on the Internet, and people talk about using urlencode etc, > this is fine when > PHP is creating the URL but not when Apache is doing the rewrite. > > I apologise if people feel this is on the wrong list, but as far as I can tell > from the rewrite logs the data is coming all > the way through to PHP which is truncating it. This is purely my observation. > > Apache version: 2.2.11 > PHP Version: 5.3.0 > > Any help is gratefully recieved. > > Thanks, Russell