https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1030371 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/modrewrite#comment-1176740 <p>All that the / does is to force it back to your document root. So links like this<br /> /index.php index.php would both lead to the same place as long as your were in the root directory. If you were in a sub-directory, it would be different because the / would force it to look for the file in the document root, where the non-slashed version would cause it to look for the file in the sub-directory. The / version should work but it depends on where the mod_rewrite file is. Is it in the document root or in a sub-folder?</p> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:05:58 +0000 mairving comment 1176740 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/modrewrite#comment-1176722 <p>So, in other words, my .htaccess is correct to this context?</p> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:40:16 +0000 veedee comment 1176722 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/modrewrite#comment-1176707 <p>Like everything there is more than one way to do this.</p> <p>The first slash can force to root level but all your doing is changing the file in a folder, not the file in main folder.<br /> would be easier IMO to do: mydomain.com/product.php?genId=1 which would be mydomain.com/product1<br /> don't understand why people use folders galore, is more work</p> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:39:02 +0000 Busy comment 1176707 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net