PHP Rewrite Question on Folder Levels

accelerator · Sep 12, 2010

Guys

I'm spending the afternoon integrating Price Tapestry into my own set of template files.

On this search page the header and main menu are includes from my own template as follows:

Code:

include("inc-title.php");
include("inc-menu-main.php");

Now I want to add the same things to the merchants page. Now, I've added exactly the same code, but the images are broken. I think that this is because the merchants page is being displayed using the ReWrite engine, with the following rules:

Code:

RewriteRule ^merchant/$ merchants.php
RewriteRule ^merchant/(.*)/$ search.php?q=merchant:$1:&rewrite=1%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^merchant/(.*)/(.*).html$ search.php?q=merchant:$1:&page=$2&rewrite=1%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Now, I am of course just about to read up on the ReWrite engine, but can one of you clever people tell me what to do before I work it out? Currently images are getting broken by the insertion of a merchant folder, i.e.

Code:

http://www.kingsizebeds.me.uk/merchant/images/logo-260x60.jpg

which should be:

Code:

http://www.kingsizebeds.me.uk/images/logo-260x60.jpg

Any ideas?

Thanks

davedevelopment · Sep 12, 2010

Sounds to me more like the inc-title and inc-main-menu files need changing so that the urls to images are absolute, instead of relative?

accelerator · Sep 12, 2010

I can put a slash in front of the image src in the included file, i.e. change:

Code:

<td width="280"><a href="index.php"><img src="images/logo-260x60.jpg" alt="Home Page" width="260" height="60" border="0" /></a></td>

to:

Code:

<td width="280"><a href="index.php"><img src="/images/logo-260x60.jpg" alt="Home Page" width="260" height="60" border="0" /></a></td>

and the image will display. However, the link to the home page is still broken, and also the stylesheet is not referenced properly. I think there will be a more sophisticated solution by adding more info to the ReWrite rules ...

Thanks

accelerator · Sep 12, 2010

Any links in the included file also get rewritten and break the link, e.g. for the Contact Us link I have:

http://www.kingsizebeds.me.uk/merchant/site-enquiry.php

when I want:

http://www.kingsizebeds.me.uk/site-enquiry.php

So I guess the question is how do I turn off the insertion of "merchant/" into any file location references in the file being included.

Thanks

davedevelopment · Sep 12, 2010

accelerator said:
and the image will display. However, the link to the home page is still broken, and also the stylesheet is not referenced properly. I think there will be a more sophisticated solution by adding more info to the ReWrite rules ...

Thanks

Only if you write a rule that converts the

/merchant/images/...

back to

/images/...

But you'd have to do that for any further folders you create with mod_rewrite and wouldn't be considered normal practice.

davedevelopment · Sep 12, 2010

accelerator said:
Any links in the included file also get rewritten and break the link, e.g. for the Contact Us link I have:

http://www.kingsizebeds.me.uk/merchant/site-enquiry.php

when I want:

http://www.kingsizebeds.me.uk/site-enquiry.php

So I guess the question is how do I turn off the insertion of "merchant/" into any file location references in the file being included.

Thanks

You can't turn off the insertion, there isn't any.

The link is <a href="site_enquiry.php">, the browser treats that as a relative url, so in this instance relative to the merchant folder. You need to change all urls (hyperlinks, css, images, javascript) to be absolute.