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derek lapp

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apache mod rewrite

i know a lot of people here were/are gung-ho on the whole clean-code/seo movement. whether you really believe in the mentality or your just reiterating what's already been said isn't important. people here know the tricks and i need your help.

i want to set up a site with "clean urls" instead of ?s and &s from peramiters. in other words, my end goal is to have the user type in/be linked to www.site.com/section/page and i could grab the peramiters as if it was served as www.site.com/index.php?sec=sections&page=page. i've been follwing a list apart article on it, and i understand the gist of breaking up the url at the / and getting the peamiters. the article i've been used for reference was http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed (notice the url)

the problem is, the htaccess file is being all screwy. when i try to access anything in the root folder, apache serves me a 500 internal server error - i found the error log and the error it is serving reads:

[Thu Oct 12 16:45:25 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary.

here's where it gets messed up.

i've placed everything inside a folder called test (c:\wamp\www\test\). now, i know the mod_rewrite module is working, because i activated it in my httpd.conf, i turned it on in htaccess and when i used the following code, everything redirected successfully:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

# test for mod_rewrite, /google --> http://www.google.com/
RewriteRule ^google$ http://www.google.com/? [R,L]

i then told it to redirect everything to the main wamp index.php file in the www folder (instead of www/test/index.php where the htaccess is stored) and it redirected fine.

it also redirected fine when i told it to redirect to another site's folder (www/springlake/index.php). it seems to only breaks when the redirection points to the same folder that .htaccess is in (www/test/index.php), which is the one i need it to point to. why it gets stuck in that infinate loop i don't know.

any help will be appreciated, i'm sure i can return the favour somehow.