htaccess not working due to some mystical issue

Question

I'm running Windows 7 xampp server it has Apache and it has lines that are needed to uncomment to work fine.

However when I try to use RewriteRule I bump into the problem.

When I write wrong code at the start of htaccess it throws error 500, there are few commands that works, but when I use RewriteRule it simply ignore that part , unless if I write something syntax wise wrong then it reacts as error, but i have never seen my link changed.

.htaccess file is placed at myDomain directory

Can it possibly be issue of software or it's my code?

I have this dynamic link:

http://localhost//myDomain/folder/ad.php?title=theTitle&id=1

and I need to get this:

http://localhost//myDomain/folder/theTitle/1

My htaccess file looks like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /myDomain/folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/ad.php$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^title=(.*)&id=(.*)$
RewriteRule (.*) http://localhost/myDomain/folder/%1/%2.aspx? [R=301,L]

Any help would be highly honored :)

You *do* know that the rewrite is supposed to work the other way around? See http://stackoverflow.com/a/20563773/476 — deceze, Aug 18 '14 at 11:50
It should be placed in `/myDomain/folder/` directory (posted an answer below) — anubhava, Aug 18 '14 at 11:56
Stop living in fairyland – and look into the server’s error log, instead of twaddling about “mystical issues” … — CBroe, Aug 18 '14 at 13:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '14 at 11:54

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You can have these rules in /myDomain/folder/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /myDomain/folder/

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /ad\.php\?title=([^\s&]+)&id=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/%2? [R=302,L]

RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ ad.php?title=$1&id=$2 [L,QSA]

answered Aug 18 '14 at 11:54

anubhava

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I will find you, and I will give you a cookie :) – Lukas Katilauskas Aug 18 '14 at 12:05
Small issue fallowed up styles that was included into ad.php does not work now when I include it as separate file it does not even compile it, throws out code as it's writen – Lukas Katilauskas Aug 18 '14 at 12:13
For css/js etc just use absolute path in your css, js, images files rather than a relative one. Which means you have to make sure path of these files start either with `http://` or a slash `/`. You can try adding this in your page's HTML header: `` so that every relative URL is resolved from that URL and not the current URL. – anubhava Aug 18 '14 at 13:31

htaccess not working due to some mystical issue

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