mod_rewrite is appending rule to unrelated links ( side-effect )

Asked Jun 18 '15 at 19:39

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RewriteRule ^products/([^/]*)$ /products.cgi?id=$1 [L]

Will rewrite /products.cgi?id=$1 as /products/$1 as expected. But it is also appending /products/ to all links in the page. Suppose i have a link in the products page that is:

<a href="/contact-us.cgi">Contact</a>

Then the products page will link to:

/products/contact-us.cgi

That is not something i desire. I want to keep it /contact-us.cgi

edited Jun 18 '15 at 21:18

asked Jun 18 '15 at 19:39

user3518089

just add a `.` start of your link. `Contact` than it will point to `yourdomain.com/contactus.cgi` – Kamran Jun 18 '15 at 19:56
just tried it, did not work – user3518089 Jun 18 '15 at 20:10
well, it worked with two dots – user3518089 Jun 18 '15 at 20:11
it will be better if you define a `base url` for domain in your config file and append url in the link. you wont need `../` in you links – Kamran Jun 18 '15 at 20:14
You mean rewritebase? – user3518089 Jun 18 '15 at 20:17
Read this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14996129/what-exactly-is-a-baseurl it will give you an idea what base url is and how to use it. – Kamran Jun 18 '15 at 20:22
I will have to look at it, the two dots thing only worked for one dir-style rewrite, when it is more than one it does not. I guess i would have to change to ../../ and so on which is not plausible. I'm not using any framework, it is just apache+perl, where am i supposed to set the base url? – user3518089 Jun 18 '15 at 21:00
i also don't want to put the full url on href= – user3518089 Jun 18 '15 at 21:58

mod_rewrite is appending rule to unrelated links ( side-effect )

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