Whats wrong with my htaccess?

Question

I have this .htaccess in a po_systems folder of my website

# Set up mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^build_system/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2

and when i visit the url

http://somesite.localhost/po_systems/build_system/61/65F92751

the get variables are not displaying....i changed the rule to

RewriteRule ^build_dfdsadsafas/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2

to verify it was getting there and i still dont get the get variables so i tries to add junk at the begining to verify the htaccess is working

sssRewriteRule ^build_system/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2

and I got this

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

So basically my question is why is this rule

RewriteRule ^build_system/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2

not working for catching this url

 http://somesite.localhost/po_systems/build_system/61/65F92751d

Answer 1

Just a guess, but try taking out the starting ^ in "^build_system/...". ^ means start of string, and it's probably coming in as "/build_system", so ^build_system would not match because it starts with a slash.

So:

RewriteRule build_dfdsadsafas/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2

Or maybe even just add the slash in there:

RewriteRule ^/build_dfdsadsafas/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /po_systems/build_system.php?business_id=$1&system_id=$2