Re: Would this work? (mod_rewrite)

Are you sure your server has mod_rewrite installed? miguel On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote: > Miguel, if I get this working I am going to be so happy :-) > > I just tried putting the following in an .htaccess file in my root: > > RewriteEngine on > RewriteBase / > RewriteRule * index.php > > And it came back with a server misconfiguration. So, did I do something > wrong? > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@stoic.net> > To: "[ rswfire ]" <rswfire@hotmail.com> > CC: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Would this work? (mod_rewrite) > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:55:33 -0500 (CDT) > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote: > > Assume I want *.domain.*/*.* to automatically call index.php (without the > > user knowing and without any redirecting at all): > > > > RewriteEngine on > > RewriteBase / > > RewriteRule *.* index.php [R] > > > > I don't know what in the world the [R] is, but it's in almost all of the > > mod_rewrite examples... :-) > > RewriteRule * index.php > > Don't use the [R] - that tells it to create an external redirect. It's > used in many of the examples because in many real-world cases people are > using rewrite rules to coax invalid URLs into valid ones, and this way > there's at least some chance that the bad ones will get updated. > > miguel > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > >