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How to write RewriteRule in .htaccess file?

  • Hi, I have created a cms on my localhost for a website. And I have created only one page where I am dynamically creating all other pages by passing different ids. So my pages are like this. http://localhost/spscollege/allpages.php?id=1 for about-us http://localhost/spscollege/allpages.php?id=2 for facilites http://localhost/spscollege/allpages.php?id=3 for addmission and so on...

    I want to rewrite the rule for the url in .htaccess , and I googled it a lot but nothing seems to work. Let me tell you what all things I did so you can figure out what mistake i m making. 1- I created a .htaccess file and kept in the root directory of my folder(along with allpages.php) 2. I wrote (from a turtorial) this in the .htaccess file

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^home.*$ http://localhost/spscollege/allpages.php?id=1/ [R=301,L]
    

    I also checked the configration in phpinfo() and I can see that mod_rewrite is on. I also used http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/ to rewite which gave me this

      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /spscollege/allpages.php?id=$1 [L]
    

    but that didn't work either I watched a lot of youtube vidoes but nothing seems to be working for me. What mistake m I making? and how do get this work . ): I m using Xampp I have never written the rewrite rule before, I would apperecite any help or suggestion. Thanks

  • What happens when you try to use the rewrite rule? Does it 404?

  • It doesn't show any errror. But when I replaced a letter 'm' from the word +FollowSymLinks to +FollowSynLinks(just to check weather its even doing something or not.) , it showed error 500, thats the only error I have seen, else it doesn't show any error.