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ok, i will give that a try thanks for all your help david

thanks david, that worked right away! i thought the second '=' was the problem because when i tried to open the rss file in my firefox it said that error was with the second '=', so i didn't really look at the '&' at all. it all makes sense now. great! (ok i know i said i only need to get one of the two problems solved, but just out of curiosity, can anyone tell me what's wrong with the .htaccess redirect?) cheers..

i'm back, with more problems, and your help is greatly appreciated. here's the problem: i was trying to set up a rss feed for my blog. i know there are probably scripts/programs that generate rss feeds, but since it's just an xml file, i thought i'd write a little script myself. however, on my blog, the url for each file would look something like this: ....../blog/entry.php?id=23&view=simple so i put the following line in the xml file <link>....../blog/entry.php?id=23&view=simple</link> and the browser tells me that it's malformed. it works only if it's something like <link>....../blog/entry.php?id=23</link> but i need the 'view=simple' bit in the url, so my first question, then, is is there a way to have 'entry.php?id=23&view=simple' as a link in the xml file? i'm using rss version 2.0 by the way. anyway, i looked a bit on the net and couldn't work out a solution, so i went to plan b. instead of ....../blog/entry.php?id=23&view=simple i'll change the url to the following ....../blog/entry/23/simple/ and have .htaccess redirect me. this way i can put the link in the rss feed at least. so i went to the .htaccess file in my public_html dir, and added the following lines RewriteEngine On RewriteRule entry/(.+)/(.+)(/?)$ entry.php?id=$1&view=$2 however, it didn't work. so i created a directory public_html/blog/entry. then i created a new .htaccess file there, and put the same two lines in that file. it didn't work again. and the error says that 'The requested URL /blog/entry/17/simple/ was not found on this server.' so what am i doing wrong? is there something wrong with the directive in the .htaccess file, or i should've put it somewhere else? this seems implausible, but maybe servers has to be restarted for the change to take effect? on my linux at home i need to restart the web server if i change something in http.conf, but surely if the .htaccess is already there in the public_html dir there's no need to restart? anyway, solution to just one problem would be sufficient. thanks for your help!

hi, i'm a customer of tch, so could i be added to the family only forum? also, is there a place where i can log in to change my details... like my credit card number and email address to which invoices are sent every month... i need to update a few things but can't find it...... thanks guys

wow 30 years.... i guess that just proves my point: football stays in your blood! as for the suggestion that they should put a microchip of some sort in the ball to detect whether it has entirely passed the goal line, i think it's unnecessary. michele platini once recommended putting one extra referee behind each goal to watch for exactly that kind of thing and i think that would be sufficient (and they could keep an eye on all the idiots diving around in the box too!) actually just on that point, have you seen much diving lately in the games that you referee or play steve? is it really creeping into the beautiful game? i personally have seen a couple of dives first hand in the competition that i play, although the overwhelming majority of players are still playing the game in the right spirit. i'm a defender who likes a good tackle and i remember i was so angry when a guy fell down even though my foot was nowhere near his legs, and that really really pissed me off!

Sounds like baseball or golf. I'm curious...why is it the most popular sport around the world except in the US? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well i guess i have to post a reply, since i'm a football fan (i say football because that is what most people call that sport, with the exception of australia, new zealand, america, canada? etc etc) i don't know why you find football boring and i'm sorry to hear that, but then again, watching golf isn't exactly my idea of fun but i keep seeing it being broadcast on tv. i do watch basketball, gridiron, rugby, and other sports from time to time, but none has really ever captured my attention for a long period of time. football has remained my true love. as for 0-0 games being boring, i have to disagree too. a game does not need to have (a lot of) goals to be entertaining. yes it could be boring, but a game with 10 goals doesn't necessarily have to be entertaining either. what matters is how the game is played, and often when you're watching a game with top players, just to see the players display their skills is enough to satisfy most (and that includes the goalkeeper), even if no one is able to score. but at the end of the day, i guess it's a case of each to his own. if you're brought up on a diet of basketball and hockey then it's probably gonna be hard to convert you to football, and vice versa. but they americans are doing quite well so hopefully more success will make the game more popular over there. (any football fans here at all??)

thanks for the reply, but that's not what i'm looking for unfortunately. your code will print the text to the browser, but that's not what i want. if you try the php code, the output should be in a file called 'output.txt' and the user will be prompted to either save the file or open it. i thought there'd be a way using the CGI header, perhaps something like this.... print header(-type=>'text/plain', charset=>'utf-8', disposition=>'attachment', filename=>'output.txt'); but i haven't found it so far. basically i'm too lazy to select, copy, paste and save the output and i want to just be able to save it all in one step.

but somehow i don't think checking the referer alone is enough......

hi there, simple question: what is the perl equivalent of the following lines? <?php header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'); header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=output.txt'); print 'hello world'; ?> actually, to be more specific, what's the perl equivalent of the second line? in the actual code that is i've looked in a couple of places on the net but came up with nothing so far..... thanks and have a great new year

yeah think i've got that one sorted out... thanks guys..... and yeah the only reason i edit it in cpanel is because it's probably easier....

hi, i'm just wondering what the difference is between 'require' and 'include' in php. just to illustrate my point, 'a.php' includes the following lines <?php function a() { ...... } ?>\n\n\n (which get added every time i edit a file in cpanel for some reason) and in 'b.php', if i use require 'a.php' header("Content-type......... it would fail because the "\n\n" will be sent before the header, and of course header information can't be sent after there's already been output. but the problem goes away if i use 'include' instead of 'require'. why is that????

ok thanks guys, you've been more than helpful.... and having finally scrolled down to the bottom of the list of all the forums, i realise that there are more appropriate places to ask technical questions, so i guess i better stop thanks again and happy holidays to you all

ok thanks for the replies guys..... i do feel so very welcome here like i said i have to at least try, but yes i do understand the reasons behind the decision so i guess i'll just have to get used to life with ssh.... and yeah it would be great if you guys could offer some suggestions as to how i can do things such as renaming a whole bunch of files or changing permission quickly thanks a bunch!

i've only just joined, but i've been playing with someone else's account for a while now. top marks so far, except one problem..... it would be GREAT if we could be given shell access... using cpanel could be really frustrating... eg. moving and renaming files have become such complicated procedures, especially if you have repeat the operation many many times.... now i understand the security concerns and if i had my own web hosting company i probably wouldn't give people shell access either, but i guess i gotta at least try..... any chance at all?? Naughty