Repeatedly appended URLs after RewriteRule in .htaccess?

Question

This is my first time re-writing urls to be SEO friendly.

Here's my htaccess rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ratings/ ratings.php
RewriteRule regions/ regionlist.php
RewriteRule mobile/ mobile.php

For some reason, when I click the same link twice, the url will append itself in the address bar. Heres a gif image showing this happening:

Is this bad? If it is, does anyone know what's wrong ?

Help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks everyone

How you create your url? Write the php/html of the url creation. — onatm, Oct 25 '11 at 13:22

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:26

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Change your RewriteRules to this:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)$ $1.php

and make sure that your links to be like this:

<a href="/ratings">ratings</a>

but if you need specific rewrites change the location of slash

RewriteRule /ratings ratings.php
RewriteRule /regions regionlist.php
RewriteRule /mobile mobile.php

answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:26

onatm

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Problem solved, thanks :D Just wondering though, should I create another rule if there isnt a '/' after the url, e.g http://localhost/food/ratings/ and http://localhost/food/ratings ? as they don't both point to the same place :/ – Joel Murphy Oct 26 '11 at 13:46

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:26

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I think it's not the htaccess which couses trouble here... IMO you take current URL and append clicked item's name. Create the URL from scratch instead.

answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:26

Moyshe

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Turns out it was that I was just missing a '/' from my href attribute in the html, thanks mate :D – Joel Murphy Oct 26 '11 at 13:45

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:24

if you want the rewrite to always be based off the root directory you may want to write your rules with a preceeding "/"(slash)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /ratings ratings.php
RewriteRule /regions regionlist.php
RewriteRule /mobile mobile.php

This should force the rewrite rule to append this to the root url.

score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:24

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Use redirect:

redirect 301 /ratings /ratings.php

answered Oct 25 '11 at 13:24

jschorr

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Why should they expose their internal page structure? – gioele Oct 25 '11 at 13:37
I don't see a problem with it, but some might – jschorr Oct 25 '11 at 13:42
Someone like the founders of the Web? http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html :) – gioele Oct 25 '11 at 15:42
I guess humble pie is in order then for me! :) – jschorr Oct 25 '11 at 17:15

Repeatedly appended URLs after RewriteRule in .htaccess?

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