mod-rewrite

I am attempting to use mod-rewrite to chnage my dynamically created pages
into static urlls for search engine submission. I am unable to get the
rewrite to work, it doesn't seem to do anything.

Here is the code

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /home/mydirpublic_html/show/
RewriteRule ^productid([^.]+).*$ Theatres.php?id=$1
[T=application/x-httpd-php]

In the calling html file I call productid1.htm

What am I doing wrong?

I using shared hosting so my directory is noit the root. I have been
auinable to get logging to work and each time I try to add loggin to the
..htaccess file I get an error when trying to viw the calling page.

Harlan Lax wrote:

 > I am attempting to use mod-rewrite to chnage my dynamically created pages
 > into static urlls for search engine submission. I am unable to get the
 > rewrite to work, it doesn't seem to do anything.
 >
 > Here is the code
 >
 > RewriteEngine on
 > RewriteBase /home/mydirpublic_html/show/

This shouldn't be the system path, but the URI from doc_root. For
instance, if your site is located at <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.example.com/~username" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/~username</a>
and the directory you want to use rewrite in is
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.example.com/~username/show/" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/~username/show/</a> then you'd want to use the following:
RewriteBase /~username/show/

Alternatively, you can skip the RewriteBase althogether if your
..htaccess file is in the show directory.

 > RewriteRule ^productid([^.]+).*$ Theatres.php?id=$1
 > [T=application/x-httpd-php]

RewriteRule ^productid(.*)\.html?$ Theatres.php?id=$1

That should have the following results:
product1.html => Theatres.php?id=1
product1.htm => Theatres.php?id=1
product1054.html => Theatres.php?id=1054
product13.54.html => Theatres.php?id=13.54
product-a1.html => Theatres.php?id=-a1

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