[LUG] Greetings & Guidance with apache2

["Philip Radford" <phil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone.

 

Just a short note to say hi to everyone and to enquire whether anyone has had any experience with the use of the mod_rewrite module on Apache2.

 

There are plenty of tutorials / samples returned via google but for whatever reason they all result in a bad request error returned by Apache.

 

Basicallly I am trying to create a dynamic directory which will be translated to a path to a php script.

 

e.g. http://www.xyz.co.uk/products => http://www.xyz.co.uk/index.php?cat=products

 

My attempt so far is :-

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /index.php?cat=$1 (L)

 

I think my failing is that I never really understood regular expressions not even with my extensive use of PHP but all in good time I guess.

 

Anyone have any ideas or can guide me in the right direction.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

P.S. I must try and make the next meet-up with all you guys and gals to introduce myself and generally become more involved with DCLUG. Lets hope that there are no clashes for me this time round.

 

Regards
Philip Radford.