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PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:47 pm    Post subject: mod_rewrite help
 
Hi folks,

I'm trying to get a forum script up and running, we're moving our site across from another host so I want to keep the same script for a variety of reasons.

Unfortunately I didn't write it and I'm struggling to get to grips with it. The main stumbling block now is it makes heavy use of mod_rewrite, something I'm not all that familiar with.

To avoid the ridiciulous htaccess file I created a very simple test one but still can't get it to work.

I have a .htaccess file with:
Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test.html$ black.gif

Which as far as I understand it should take any request on this folder for the file test.html, and load black.gif into the browser whilst maintaining the url. Right?

Trouble is I get a 404 error, and in the error log it tells me it can't find the file path/folder/sys_cpanel

Why is it trying to rewrite to sys_cpanel and what did I do wrong?

If I can figure this out hopefully the massive amount of rules the forum author put together will all work happily without my involvement

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
cheers,
Si
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PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:53 pm    Post subject:
 
Hi,

Are you a NetHosted customer? If so I'd advise you to send in a ticket with regards to this so we can troubleshoot your .htaccess file for you.

I'd suggest this might help:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test.html$ black.gif [L,NC]


Thanks,

Andrew
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PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:56 pm    Post subject:
 
I am indeed, I just didn't want to keep nagging so I thought I'd share my problems with all

I'll submit a request (the extra tags didn't help I'm afraid)

Cheers again,
Si
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