mod-rewrite .... halfway home

[pcklz]

So far as I can tell I'm having a bit of a different problem than most - the mod-rewrite seems to be working to a point -- ie. the info in the address bar will change to reflect the name of the category and/or sub category, however all that appears is a blank page....

any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

[ibold]

You should take a look at the htaccess and make sure the URL you are trying to access actually exists without the mod-rewrite..
What did you do differently that caused you to end up here?

[pcklz]

ibold - okay, you're probably going to think I'm dumber than a post...but I am not even remotely a programmer, tho I am okay at hacking bits of this and that.....

When I do this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule .* index.php [QSA,L]

Am, I supposed to replace the "request_filename" with something else? is there supposed to be a logical statement for each category and subcategory?

[pcklz]

Okay...an update of sorts...will preface by saying that my hosting company is Globat..so if anyone has any experience with these folks that says differently...I'd sure like to know...

received from their technical support:


"We have found that because of the way our hosting platform is configured, mod_rewrite will sometimes have problems when performing redirection to PHP documents. This sounds like you may have run into one of these problems. The reason is that mod_rewrite has already been used at least once just to get to your site, then adding your rules on top of that can cause the PHP script to not be called correctly.
Unfortunately, we have little information on this problem, but it only seems to happen when the end document is a PHP script."