backslash after .php/ file extension knocks out css??

[pushyr]

i'm trying to make my urls search engine friendly by removing the query strings and using apaches look back $PATH_INFO function...

the only thing is that when i put a backslash in front of .php it knocks out my CSS... for example

this is my css include...

<link rel="stylesheet" href="_tools/modules/_css/admin.css" type="text/css" />

this is my regular url query string...

http://www.mysite.com/news.php?id=431

and this is my SEO friendly url which knocks out the css...

http://www.mysite.com/news.php/release/431

i've isolated it down to the 'backslash' directly in front of the .php/ extension. when i include it, it just knocks out the css

any takers on how i can correct the problem?

 

[jman78]

Try using an absolute path when you are calling your CSS file.
i.e. -

<link rel="stylesheet" href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://mysite.com/_tools/modules/_css/admin.css"[/URL] type="text/css" />

jason

 

[pushyr]

thanks jman78! how could i be so stupid to neglect that simple fix!!!!

 

[trollacious]

FYI, a backslash is this: \. What you called a "backslash" is called either a "forward slash" or just "slash".

Lee

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Perhaps he's a RTL user, as it was also after the ".php" extension, not before



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[Vragabond]

http://www.mysite.com/

news.php/release/431

Actually, after the URL rewrite, his backslash was after the .php extension.

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[pushyr]

sorry i meant forward slash

i can see that you are speculating over my placing the parameters after the php extension. please share your thoughts if you think this is a bad idea. do you think search engines stop reading after the php extension? i thought they stop reading once they start seeing the query string beginning with the '?' question mark.

i would rather use apache's RewriteRule to produce a cleaner url for example...

http://www.mysite.com/release/433

...but i've been having a little trouble with it

btw, sorry if this is the wrong forum group tp continue this discussion

 

[ChrisHunt]

Search engines don't particlarly care one way or the other these days, though it's a discussion more suited for forum828 .

Using mod_rewrite to hide the news.php bit is quite a good idea - it hides the implementation specifics from end-users and means that you could potentially change the way your site works in future without changing any URLs.

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it though.

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