Simple rewriterule

Bob_Harris

I want to create a rewrite rule to basically remove suffix from the end of my URLs.

Lets say I have a URL: mysite.com/info.php

And want it to appear as: mysite.com/information

I use this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule information info.php

This works fine, but if the user appends a slash at the end i.e. mysite.com/information/ the page loads but no CSS or Javascript loads.

The file structure is like this:
info.php
css/style.css
script/js.js

Relative links to files are used everywhere.

Why does using information work whereas information/ breaks the links?

I'm not that similar with .htaccess but from what I've seen the documentation is piss poor.

Pygmalion

Bob_Harris wrote: »

I want to create a rewrite rule to basically remove suffix from the end of my URLs.

Lets say I have a URL: mysite.com/info.php

And want it to appear as: mysite.com/information

I use this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule information info.php

This works fine, but if the user appends a slash at the end i.e. mysite.com/information/ the page loads but no CSS or Javascript loads.

The file structure is like this:
info.php
css/style.css
script/js.js

Relative links to files are used everywhere.

This is causing it, the browser thinks that "information/" is a folder instead of a file called "information", it looks for "information/css/style.css" instead of just "css/style.css".

Answer is to either use absolute links or (preferably) never link to "information/" as this ca really confuse the browser.

Bob_Harris

Yeah I'd prefer not to use absolute links.

I notice on some websites if you append a slash at the end of the URL, it gets stripped away by some process.

Should I even be bothered by this?