Thought it was something like that, hence the request. Glad you got it sorted

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Do you still need a hand with this? I've done it recently on a site.

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Got it sorted, only thing i did come across is, if i use say www.mysite.com/myname and i have a forum setup www.mysite.com/forum/ then the forum wont work, i got around this by rewriting to www.mysite.com/blog/myname and the forum stays at www.mysite.com/forum!
Any ideas how to get around this?

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You can add a condition to your rule like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(forum)/.*$
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9/-]+)$ inner.asp?p=$1 [NC,L]

First line checks that a file doesn't actually exist, second a directory doesn't exist, third the URL doesn't start with forum, and last line (if all conditions above are false) executes the rewrite. I suspect you just need to add the third line to your code in the same format as above.

HTH

Dave

3 ways to do it

1. daves way
2. add this to the top of you .htaccess
3. add a .htaccess file to the forum folder with "RewriteEngine off"

Another helpful rule is

NEVER use this rule on a live site only use it for testing, the log files would be HUGE

Not promoting my own here but 2 would redirect everything from mysite.com/forum/ to mysite.com/forum/index.php and ignore the rest of the rules. Although it would work, personally I'd prefer not to see index.php. With 3, you won't be able to use htaccess in that folder then and I presume that you will want that if it's set up like this forum for example (see url above). If I'm wrong with that analysis of that rewrite code, sorry - I've only been writing them for a couple of months now.

Good to have a bit of lateral thinking of a solution though.

Thanks for the log file code - that would have been handy recently when I was debuging what the hell htaccess was doing!

Rgds, Dave

That worked a treat, thanks lads. One another note while i have you here, any suggestions why mod_rewrite wont work at home on my test machine?

You're probably developing on a windows machine. Only way to use htaccess on windows is to use ISAPI_Rewrite - URL Rewrite engine for IIS, ISAPI Filter for URL Rewriting, mod_rewrite for IIS. I use it on my live server for developing in asp.

Ye, its on XP pro, i'll setup a redhat server tomorrow then and try get apache and all working on it! Never setup an *nix webserver box before! should be fun!

Ziycon if you are running apache on xp there should not be a problem make sure mod rewrite is enabled in apache. I test using xampp on my xp machine and have no problem testing mod rewrite.

David my first one (no.2) should work as expected and leave the url as mysite.com/forum/ the same as with any other rule it doesn't add index.php, not sure why you thought it would.

The 3rd does have that obvious disadvantage but without knowing his forum setup it may the easiest way so its good to have it as an option, lateral thinking as you say.

Saying that I think your solution is the best one and would be the recommended one by me too.