I wonder if anyone can help please?
I am setting up a 'friendly URL' facility and every time mod rewrite is called it tries to send the browser to the XAMPP root, blocked only by the Username/Password that pops up to protect this level [If already logged in, the stored cookie permits access to the XAMPP front page]
The .htaccess file resident in the appropriate subdirectory "/test/" says;
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index/([0-9]+)$ /index.php?cat=$1
The function is to take an incoming URL such as "http://www.domain.com/test/index/45" and convert it to "http://www.domain.com/test/index.php?cat=45"
In fact it sends the browser to "http://www.domain.com/xampp/"
Any advice would be very much appreciated. Many thanks for reading this plea!