Trouble with mod rewrite and slashes and $_GET

Question

I'm trying to implement nicer urls using mod rewrite to a php script I wrote to view documents pulled from a mysql database by their entry name. i use the following code and it works fine.

RewriteRule ^view.doc.(.+)  index.php?doc=$1

so basically

view.doc.xyz whould be index.php?doc=xyz

But im having trouble with entry names with '/' and '\' in them being viewed through the rewritten link.

view.doc.abc/123 into index.php?doc=abc/123

or like

view.doc.sg1\123 into index.php?doc=sg1\123

Ether i'd get an endless loop or get a 404 error. I'm pretty new to mod rewrite and Id very much appreciate any help on the matter.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '13 at 20:23

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Try this rule:

RewriteRule ^view\.doc\.(.+)$ index.php?doc=$1 [L,QSA,NE,NC]

answered Nov 19 '13 at 20:23

anubhava

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yes but it seems that the 404 problem persisted only because the script was working from a sub directory. i simply added the html tag to the document header and your rewrite solution worked quite well. – user3010407 Dec 19 '13 at 12:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '13 at 23:15

I propose a slightly different solution from the @anubhava's one, by prepending a slash before index.php, tested on Debian/Apache2:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^view\.doc\.(.+)$ /index.php?doc=$1 [L,QSA,NE,NC]

It gives:

view.doc.abc/123 => /index.php?doc=abc/123

I cannot test anti-slash \, as no browser permits me to test this in URL without transforming it to slash /.

Trouble with mod rewrite and slashes and $_GET

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