I'm adding a download section to my website. I want to track the downloads so I've created a php file that acts as a proxy;

 

it takes one argument: files ($_GET['files']) which is the requested file

it then logs it in the database and servers the file.

 

problem is that when I try to set up mod rewrite to make a nice URL structure for it.

 

What I want is:

If I type http://download.thomthom.net/test.txt the proxy file will get $_GET['file'] = 'test.txt'

If I type http://download.thomthom.net/foo/bar.txt the proxy file will get $_GET['file'] = 'foo/bar.txt'

 

My .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ d.php?file=$1

 

I though this would do it. But it doesn't. Instead the file argument gets populated with 'd.php'. Which I really can not understand why.

try posting this on sitepoint - there a couple of mod rewrite buffs over there.

try posting this on sitepoint - there a couple of mod rewrite buffs over there.

 

guess he beat me to it!

I got it working. The problem was that I caused a loop. I had to prevent it redirecting the redirect. It's all good now!