After url rewrite, links in page contnet becoming broken

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Hi folks,

my property rental site has properties list for rent and each property detail page having a url like below

http://www.example.com/view-property.php?pid=116

now i have rewritten this url as follows

rewriteRule ^property/([0-9]+)/?$ view-property.php?pid=$1 [L]

now problem is when i execte a rewritten url, the linkes in that page shows broken. for example

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

is broken, it shows

The requested URL /property/style.css was not found on this server.

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You should probably rewrite your <link> to be more general. Is your style.css on the root folder?

Make it something like “href=”/style.css" to where it always has a starting folder to go to. The slash (/) in the beginning makes it look to the root folder and start there.

All of your pages should be doing something like this. All your file calls.

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Awesome.

Make it something like “href=”/style.css" to where it always has a starting folder to go to.

yes, i have a bad practice that i do not refer to urls from the root /. i just put a slash infront of style.css and it works !!!

Thanks a lot Ryan.

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afridy,

Your problem is that you’re redirecting to a level in your directory structure different than the request … AND you’ve made matters worse (if possible) by giving visitors the option to make the request look another level deeper with the optional trailing /.

IMHO, I’d:

  1. Delete the /? (optional trailing /) before the $ (end anchor)
  2. Use relative links which are based on the property/ subdirectory. Yes, I know it doesn’t exist but Apache doesn’t!

OR, as RR suggested,

  • Use (internal) absolute links for all links within the view-property script. I consider this the weaker of the two approaches but it would resolve your current problem…

Regards,

DK

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Thanks dklynn for the valuable advise. sure ill check it.

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