mod_rewrite problems

hwanch

I've been a log time user to ZenPhoto and wanted to say great work Tris.

I just moved my site to a new hosting server. Now I'm having problems with mod_rewrite and ZenPhoto in only one case. Zenphoto and mod_rewrite seems to work for pretty much everything. The only time I have problems is when I'm in a gallery and I click on one of the thumbnail images to bring up the page with the bigger picture. In IE, it just hangs. In Firefox, I get a message saying "Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."

When I turn off mod_rewrite in the zp-config, this works without a problem. Only when mod_rewrite is enabled do I have this problem, and it's only in this instance. All my other redirects seem to work.

I'm assuming I have a problem with this rule:
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/\\]+)$ index.php?album=$1&image=$2 [L,QSA]

Can someone give me some pointers? Thanks.

Here is what is included in my htaccess file:

# htaccess file for zenphoto
# NOTE: Change the RewriteBase below to the absolute path to your zenphoto directory.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# !!! Change this to the web path (eg: http://www.example.com/photos --> /photos) !!!
RewriteBase /album

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [R,L]

RewriteRule ^admin/?$ zp-files/admin.php [R,L]

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([A-Za-z0-9\-_]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ index.php?album=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?album=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/image/(thumb|[0-9]{1,4})/([^/\\]+)$ zp-files/i.php?a=$1&i=$3&s=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/image/([^/\\]+)$ albums/$1/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/\\]+)$ index.php?album=$1&image=$2 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

feedpuppy

I have the exact problem. And I found if the album title has space in them, such as a title "good pic", then I will get the redirect error. but if the title doesn't have space such as "goodpic", then it's fine. Don't know what's wrong.

hwanch

Thanks. I guess I have to rename all my folders then. This shouldn't be a problem. Is anyone else having this problem? It used to work perfectly fine when I was usigg dreamhost but it seemed to have "broke" with hostpc.

For the meantime, I'll try renaming my folders and see if that works. Thanks.

SubJunk

I realize this isn't a fix but it could be good to temporarily rename folders with code spacing, so "My Folder" changes to `My Folder`. Not sure if that will work (whether it will just show the word ` ` but if it works it will be better than changing all the album titles to be only one word

Donkikong

That would be:
`My%20Folder`
as you can use & or ; in folder names

hwanch

Thanks for the recommendations. I couldn't figure out a solution either so I just took the workaround of renaming my folders to use an underscore (_) in place of spaces.

I noticed that it's not limited to spaces, but any character that gets URL encoded. So spaces, apostrophes, commas, parentheses, etc. will break the mod_rewrite. I've stripped my folders from using any "special" characters and now my albums work.

Just in case anyone else has this problem, you can try this work around.