[freelancr]

I am just reading about mod_rewrite, and have just successfully made it work when testing on localhost. Though initially I had a problem making sure the links didn't break to files (images, js, css, etc)

Here is my usual file structure when testing on localhost:
localhost/website/index.php
localhost/website/css/screen.css
localhost/website/img/whatever.png
localhost/website/js/library.js

I then made a RewriteRule so pages/about -> index.php?page=1

But then all the links were broken on the page that was generated, as I link to "css/screen.css", "js/library.js", etc. So I am now using a <base href="http://localhost/website/" /> tag in the head of the page, and it makes sure the links dont become broken no matter which sub-directory of the website I am virtually in.

Is this the best method of ensuring I don't get broken links, or should I be doing something else?

[sn33kyp3t3]

You probably need something like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

But there is no way to know without seeing your whole .htaccess file

[pgo]

Why not set up Apache virtual hosts?

I wrote Set Up a Local Web Development Server on Windows maybe you can get some help there?

Otherwise, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to .htaccess and mod_rewrite still.