All my images blocked on the inex.php homepage

[Mickey]

Hello, Dody...

In the recent weeks, I modified too much my URL rewriting system, and I was blocked by a "detail" with the number of the different pages of the categories.
I observed for hours all my modifications, and like I did not understand exactly where the regular expressions were wrong, I decided to start again with the original script of lib/mod-rewrite.lib.php and with the original ".htaccess" file.

But at a given moment, I saw a strange thing : All the images of the index.php disappeared ! All the images of my admin section also disappeared.
I believed it was a bug of my web host, but when I tried different things (step by step, looking at the style.css file, etc.) to try to see again my images, I saw that the error came from my ".htaccess" file !

So, when I identified the ".htaccess" file, I tried step by step lots of things (adding [L] at the end of the lines or $, inversing lines, etc.)

At the end, I found the culprit : it was this line in the ".htaccess" file :

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*) /browse.php?cat=$1&pg_which=$3

I tried to add a $ before the /, but nothing happened...
I tried to add a [L] at the end of the line, but nothing happened...

And I tried to think. So, I told myself that the image folder was on "level 3" of the "///" organization.
And I tried to modify that : (.*)/(.*)/(.*)
... to replace it by that ([0-9]+)

And it was a miracle : it worked again !

My definitive line is like that

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+)$ /browse.php?cat=$1&pg_which=$3 [L]

... because I arranged it to match with the rules of my web host.

But the reason of the disappearance of the images was really the (.*) of the third level.

What do you think of that ? Do you think it's due to a thing I lost when I made lots of modifications of your original script ? Or is it due to special configurations of certain web hosts ?
I have not seen ".htaccess" file in the "/images" folder of the different themes.

Mickey

PS : why have I done all these modifications at the beginning ?
It's simply because I wanted to get the "cat_path" in the URl intead of the "cat_name". With the cat_path, the URL is better to optimize the web site for search engines robots

So, I'll try again step by step to modify ith the cat-path. But I wanted to speak to you of the strange affair of the disappearance of the images
Maybe it's due to special Apache configurations ?

I'll also modify the mod-rewrite.lib.php file to replace the (.*) by ([0-9]+)... But I'm impatient to read your answer before.