Posted by Paul Lautman on 06/08/06 12:26

Rik G. wrote:
> I'm trying to replace a PHP query string with virtual directories
> using Apache's mod_rewrite. Here's my test .htaccess:
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^qqq$ database.php?cat=0
> RewriteRule ^qqq/xxx$ database.php?cat=0
>
> The problem is that database.php contains several relative paths to
> images. This means mydomain/qqq works fine and all the images are
> found but when typing mydomain/qqq/xxx the file database.php seems to
> think it is in the xxx directory and cannot find the images.
>
> What, apart from not using relative paths in database.php, can be done
> to make things work correctly so that database.php always thinks it is
> in the root directory and finds the images?
>
> Regards
>
> R.

Methnks that question might be better in alt.apache.configuration or even
over at http://www.mod-rewrite.com/forum/

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