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Thanks for your help. &nbsp;I simply made my links relative and that worked fine!
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Thanks for your help.  I simply made my links relative and that worked fine!

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WHOOPS! &nbsp;I mean, i simply made the links absolute!
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WHOOPS!  I mean, i simply made the links absolute!

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Hi EE,<br />
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I'm using mod_rewrite and rewrite rule for user-friendly URLs, and it's working fine. &nbsp;The only time it fails me is if the user accidentally includes a trailing slash in the URL.<br />
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Here's my /.htaccess:<br />
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Options FollowSymLinks<br />
RewriteEngine ON<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteRule ([-.a-zA-Z_0-9]+)/?$ /page.php?pagealias=$1 [NC]<br />
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This says, if URL contains a file or directory that exists, go there. &nbsp;If not, compile into a variable and send to page.php (which uses the querystring $1 to pull dynamic content).<br />
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If the user enters, http://www.site.com/fire-protection<br />
the rewriterule works, and the relative links for things like images and css files work fine.<br />
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If the user enters, http://www.site.com/fire-protection/<br />
the rewriterule works, but the relative links no longer work. &nbsp;<br />
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Can i eliminate the trailing slash and then do the rewriterule? &nbsp;Or, is there some way to easily create relative links as absolute links, without hard coding each link?
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Hi EE,

I'm using mod_rewrite and rewrite rule for user-friendly URLs, and it's working fine.  The only time it fails me is if the user accidentally includes a trailing slash in the URL.

Here's my /.htaccess:

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ([-.a-zA-Z_0-9]+)/?$ /page.php?pagealias=$1 [NC]

This says, if URL contains a file or directory that exists, go there.  If not, compile into a variable and send to page.php (which uses the querystring $1 to pull dynamic content).

If the user enters, http://www.site.com/fire-protection
the rewriterule works, and the relative links for things like images and css files work fine.

If the user enters, http://www.site.com/fire-protection/
the rewriterule works, but the relative links no longer work.  

Can i eliminate the trailing slash and then do the rewriterule?  Or, is there some way to easily create relative links as absolute links, without hard coding each link?

mod_rewrite rewriterule relative links

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