I have this problem: The administrator of the server says that he had rewrite_module enabled for the apache server but when I upload some test files to the server to test this functionality it does not work.
I have it enabled at localhost and it works perfectly fine there.
.htaccess content:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^games/(.*)$ games.php?id=$1 [L]
games.php content:
<?php
$var = $_GET['id'];
echo $var;
?>
URLS:
localhost url:http://localhost/testing/games/123123
production url:http://mysite.com/test2/games/123123
test2 is the folder that contains the files (.htaccess and games.php) What happens in production is that when i type this i get the page games.php but the id does not get echoed and query string is empty instead of getting the id 123123 which I provided.For localhost everything works fine and I get the id echoed. Maybe the administrator is wrong or what? Thank you in advance.
You are in subdirectories and you're telling the engine to rewrite when the request begins exactly with 'games'. You can try to remove the caret ^, or replace it with a slash / ... or add this after RewriteEngine on :
RewriteBase /testing/
in production:
RewriteBase /test2/
Or try:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /test2/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^games/(.*)$ games.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]