Re: Would this work? (mod_rewrite)

Do you have access to your server's error_log file? With any luck there'll be a more informative message there (something like "Miguel was too lazy to pay sufficient attention to the following Rewrite caveat: xxxxxxx"). miguel On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, [ rswfire ] wrote: > mod_bwlimited, mod_php4, mod_log_bytes, mod_frontpage, mod_ssl, > mod_setenvif, mod_so, mod_auth, mod_access, mod_rewrite, mod_alias, > mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap, mod_asis, mod_cgi, mod_dir, > mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_status, mod_negotiation, mod_mime, > mod_log_config, mod_env, http_core > > > ----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 > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: > http://mobile.msn.com > > >