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Hi to all,

I've been using WAMP for ages now and just started working my way into mod_rewrite which I've got enabled but for whatever reason it refuses to work, I've searched Google up and down and everything I've found works for the person who makes the tutorial and uses WAMP but not for me and i follow them word for word and to the T.

My .htaccess file sits in c:/wamp/www/ and it uses the following code

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^index/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ index.php?sid=$1 [NC,L]

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I'm basically going nuts trying to work this out because i really want to test my URL rewrites on my localhost before i go live with them. In case your confused my problem is the URL doesn't change no matter what i add to the .htaccess file

Thanks in advance



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2010 10:15AM by SgtLegend.

Did u enable it on the menu?

Steven Martin
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Yes, I've also made sure AllowOverride is set to All yet it refuses to change the URL

mod_rewrite will not change your current urls to the new format for you. You'll need to edit your files and manually change the urls to the new url format. Eg change

<a href="index.php?sid=whatever">Whatever</a>

to

<a href="/index/whatever/">Whatever</a>

You can test the url by going to

localhost/index/whatever/ and it should call index.php?sid=whatever

Thanks, all this time i thought it re-wrote the URL but i thought wrong. Your answer was spot on bud, thanks very much



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/14/2010 11:02AM by SgtLegend.