Mod Rewrite

[Austen]

RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /shoutboxtemplate.php?box=$1 [L]


Not working and resulting in a 500 Internal error

Any heeeelp?

[iDunk]

Any error 500s should show up in your Apache error log (assuming you're using Apache). Other than that, I dunno what to tell you because I'm not entirely familiar with Mod Rewrites.

[Bennett 🚀]

I'm not the greatest at deciphering RegEx, what are you trying to get at exactly?

You also need Options +SymLinks before RewriteBase /

[Austen]

iPokemon, tried that before and it made it worse =/
I fixed it, nevertheless

[Michael]

The problem is you're creating an infinite loop with your redirect here:

Try something like:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /shoutboxtemplate.php?box=$1 [L]

To be honest, you should probably narrow your RegEx down a bit to only match alphanumeric strings so that this problem is slightly more resolved:

[a-z0-9]+

[Bennett 🚀]

Aug 14, 2011 1:03:17 GMT -8 Austen said:

iPokemon, tried that before and it made it worse =/
I fixed it, nevertheless

That's not what is making it worse, that's just a simple starter And usually, it's the coder's fault for not making something work, not the processor itself

[uzi]

Try what Wrighty said, that's almost definitely your error. Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled in httpd.conf and check your Apache error log for timestamped info about errors.

You don't really need to narrow your regexp, something as broad as ^(.*)$ works fine. Solve the cause and not the symptoms and you are better off.

[Snakeair]

I'm not sure if i'll get in trouble for this but i found a blog post earlier that i posted on another forum that was helpful to a few members.

www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/htaccess-redirect-rewrite-rules.html