List and Detail URL Rewriting

Does changing the link to this help?:

<a href="/windows/<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" />">

Martin Underhill said:

Does changing the link to this help?:

<a href="/windows/<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" />">

Unfortunately not, it brings me back a 500 Internal Server Error

Hmmm… Thought it'd be the directory thing. I'm clutching at straws now… :P

Did you include this before the rewrite rule: RewriteEngine On

Martin Underhill said:

Hmmm… Thought it'd be the directory thing. I'm clutching at straws now… :P

Did you include this before the rewrite rule: RewriteEngine On

Yeah it's thrown me too!

The RewriteEngine On is at the top of the .htaccess file too

Hi Drew,

The issue is the rewriting - if I leave everything as it was when I first set it up I could access the detail page

I'm not getting any errors as such just a page not found

Yes that's correct

Wouldn't /windows/index.php?s=$1 mean that the page is placed within the folder 'windows' though? Was trying to keep all files within the root of server

Maybe this would do it, in that case: ^windows/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /windows.php?s=$1 [L]

Unfortunately that doesn't work either. I will have to look into alternative ways of doing this

I have a page called windows.php which is in the route - this is also using a rewrite to remove the .php off the end of the address.

I then have a list and detail page of which the list page looks like the following...

    <div class="col30">
        <a href="/<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" />">
            <img src="<perch:content id="product-image" label="Product Image" type="image" width="350" height="210" crop="true" />" />
            <h3><center><perch:content id="product-title" label="Product Title" type="text" /></center></h3>
        </a>
    </div>

As well as the list my .htaccess reads the following...

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=permanent,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?(admin|user)/

RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /windows.php?s=$1 [L]


ErrorDocument 404 /not-found/

The end result should be that I click onto the link within the list and then the detail page should come up as the folllowing...

'website.co.uk/[slug]' instead of the current 'website.co.uk/windows?s=$1'

Try putting RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /windows.php?s=$1 [L] just after the RewriteEngine On line. If that doesn't work, move it down a line, try it and keep doing that. I suspect it's because there's no file called windows.php because the .php bit is being removed further up the file. Worth a shot :)

Still getting nothing from that unfortunately.

That doesn't seem to solve the problem either.

I have tried both windows and windows.php in the following...

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /windows?s=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ /$1 [R=permanent,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?(admin|user)/

ErrorDocument 404 /not-found/