.htaccess help?

[Jme]

Hey,

I'm trying to use RewriteEngine to alter the url's on my site but it keeps either doing something I don't want or giving an internal server error.

RewriteRule ^newsite/(.*)$ newsite/?p=$1 [L]

that gives an internal server error.
I want it to be like site.com/newsite/pagename

I tried

RewriteRule ^newsite/(.*)/$ newsite/?p=$1 [L]

That worked kind of but you HAD to have the / after the page name or else it wouldn't work and I don't want to have the /.

It'd be cool if anyone could help.

Cheers,
Jamie

[Invent]

I think this may be the issue (not v. good with htaccess), you're telling the server to rewrite the url /newsite/<anything> to /newsite/?p=<anything>, which if you think about it logically will cause a loop of rewrites.

Try something like:

RewriteRule ^newsite2/(.*)$ newsite/index.php?p=$1 [L]

[Jme]

Just returns a 404 error. Cheers anyway
Anyone else able to help?

[Invent]

That's strange as it worked perfectly on my localhost

[Jme]

That's strange as it worked perfectly on my localhost

RewriteRule ^newsite/(.*)$ newsite/index.php?p=$1 [L]

includes:

newsite/index.php.php

It's treating index.php as part of the $1 variable.
When I take index.php out I get the internal server error, LOL

The only way to solve this is to do:

RewriteRule ^newsite/page/(.*)$ newsite/index.php?p=$1 [L]

so it'd be like

site.com/newsite/page/pagename

But I don't want that either, haha.

It's seriously rattling my brain

Maybe i'm just being too fussy.

[Invent]

lol, I can't think properly at the moment (probably due to the fact its half four in the morning, lol), so I'll post a working method tomorrow for 'ya

[Jme]

Thanks, Simon
I'll keep on trying, doubt i'll get anywhere tho hahaha.

[Calon]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /newsite/index.php?p=$1 [L]

But, that would be

http://www.site.com/pagename

which I suppose is better?

[Jme]

Yeah, but the site's in a folder on the server called newsite