使用Apache mod_rewrite时，<a>标签中href属性的正确形式是什么？

Question

I want to make my URL clean. Below is what I want to do:
Dirty URL: www.site.com/index.php?page=products
Clean URL: www.site.com/products/

For this, I write these codes in .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /index.php?page=$1

But whenever I click on the links in my project, I redirect to localhost page. Links are in this form:

<a href="products">Products</a>

I think it may be related to href value.
What's the correct form for href value? href="product",href="/product/",etc. ?

Answer 1

There is no correct form for your href attribute, each form acts in different ways:

<a href="products">Products</a>

The above would go relatively from the page you are currently on, so might be domain.com/products but might be domain.com/shop/products

You are better using a link direct from the root by using a / at the start, for example:

<a href="/products">Products</a>

would go to domain.com/products (note the lack of a / at the end of the url, which will make it not work with your current htaccess rule)

To make both /products and /products/ go to the correct place, change your htaccess rule to:

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/?$ /index.php?page=$1

The ? will make the character preceding it optional, so the / in this case.