mod_rewrite is not working with my urls

Question

I am trying to make SEO friendly URLs of using apache mod_rewrite.

My normal URLs is something like this -

index.php?p=about
index.php?p=contact
index.php?p=this

My expecting SEO friendly URLs should be something similar to this -

localhost/php_advance/ch02/about
localhost/php_advance/ch02/contact
localhost/php_advance/ch02/this

I tried it with creating a .htaccess file and doing some changes to my apache httpd.conf file.

This is my .htaccess file

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>

# Turn on the engine:
RewriteEngine on

# Set the base to this directory:
RewriteBase /php_advance/ch02/

# Redirect certain paths to index.php:
RewriteRule ^(about|contact|this|that|search)/?$ index.php?p=$1

</ifModule>

And also, At the end of the httpd.conf file, I added some code like this -

<Directory "C:/wamp/www/php_advance/ch02">
 AllowOverride All
</Directory>

NOTE: I am using WAMP server and Windows 07

But this coding is not working for me. Hope someone will help me out. Thank you.

Answer 1

Make sure mod_rewrite is turned on. In your httpd.conf file, you should have something similar to:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Then make sure your htaccess file is in your /ch02/ directory.

Answer 2

Try this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteBase /php_advance/ch02/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /php_advance/ch02/index.php [L]
</IfModule>