[clickzilla]

Hi,

I'm building a tagging system for a site of mine and encountered a problem with a rule for rewriting URLs, using mod_rewrite.

The rule I was using was

Code:

RewriteRule ^tag/([^/]+)/$ tag.php?t=$1

but it just didn't work at all ... the $1 was replaced with nothing "";

So (after hours of searching ) I've changed the rule to

Code:

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/$ tag.php?t=$1

and it works.

The difference between those two is tiny ( from "^tag/..." to "^tags/..");

Could someone explain to me why did this happen?
Why using 3-letter-short (or less) words in the pattern screws everything up?

Btw... have a great weekend!

[Nico]

I can't reproduce the error. Both of your codes work for me (locally tested). And as far as I'm concerned, there's no minimum character limit. Are you sure you didn't change anything else?

[clickzilla]

Yes, I'm positive.

I've tested this on localhost only. Will give it a try when I finish the whole thing.

Maybe another rewrite rule interferes with this.

Perhaps this one?

Code:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)-example_(.*).html$ example.php?e=$3

Thanks for taking the time to test and reply!

[Nico]

It's quite possible that some of your rewritings conflict, but I don't think the one above causes any problems. But try changing the order of some similar ones.

Can you post your whole .htaccess file? That'd make it a bit easier.

[clickzilla]

There's no other similar rule.

All other rules look something like

Code:

RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php

or like this

Code:

RewriteRule ^login.html(.*)$ login.php$1