Refering Page in email results

Hey,

I want to add the refering page URL in the form results. I had this working on my staging site but after migrating the settings to my live site it no longer works.

I am using this as a hidden field:

<input type='hidden' name='referer' value='<?=$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']?>'

Here is the form code:

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_heading">
    <h1 class="cf_text">Your Details</h1>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Business:</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox required validate-alpha" maxlength="150" size="30" title="Please enter your businesses name using alpha characters only." id="text_0" name="busname" type="text" />
  <a class="tooltiplink" onclick="return false;"><img height="16" border="0" width="16" class="tooltipimg" alt="" src="components/com_chronocontact/css/images/tooltip.png"/></a>
				<div class="tooltipdiv">Business: :: Your business name should be recognisable to the customer you are inviting</div>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Name:</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox" maxlength="150" size="30" title="Enter you name using alpha characters only" id="text_1" name="name" type="text" />
  <a class="tooltiplink" onclick="return false;"><img height="16" border="0" width="16" class="tooltipimg" alt="" src="components/com_chronocontact/css/images/tooltip.png"/></a>
				<div class="tooltipdiv">Name: :: Enter your name</div>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Email:</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox validate-email" maxlength="150" size="30" title="Enter a valid email address" id="text_2" name="email" type="text" />
  <a class="tooltiplink" onclick="return false;"><img height="16" border="0" width="16" class="tooltipimg" alt="" src="components/com_chronocontact/css/images/tooltip.png"/></a>
				<div class="tooltipdiv">Email: :: Enter an email address the customer can contact you at</div>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_heading">
    <h1 class="cf_text">Customer Details</h1>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_textbox">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Email:</label>
    <input class="cf_inputbox validate-email" maxlength="150" size="30" title="Enter a valid email address" id="text_3" name="inviteemail" type="text" />
  <a class="tooltiplink" onclick="return false;"><img height="16" border="0" width="16" class="tooltipimg" alt="" src="components/com_chronocontact/css/images/tooltip.png"/></a>
				<div class="tooltipdiv">Email: :: Enter the email address of the customer you would like to invite would like to invite</div>
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<input type='hidden' name='page_title' value='<?php global $mainframe; echo $mainframe->getPageTitle();?>'/>

<input type='hidden' name='referer' value='<?=$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']?>'

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_captcha">
    <label class="cf_label" style="width: 150px;">Are you human?</label>
    <span>{imageverification}</span> 
    <a class="tooltiplink" onclick="return false;"><img height="16" border="0" width="16" class="tooltipimg" alt="" src="components/com_chronocontact/css/images/tooltip.png"/></a>
				<div class="tooltipdiv">Are you human? :: Enter character in the verification image (this is in an effort to stop SPAM)</div>
    </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

<div class="form_item">
  <div class="form_element cf_button">
    <input value="Submit" name="button_7" type="submit" />
  </div>
  <div class="cfclear"> </div>
</div>

Here is the email template:

<p>Hi!</p>
<p>{name} from {busname} has invited you to review your experieince with a product your service you have recieved.</p>
<p>To review {busname} click <a href="{referer}/" title="Review Business">here</a></p>
<p>You can contact {name} by simply replying to this email.</p>
<p>Thanks for considering a review at <a href="http://www.lista.net.nz/" title="Lista - where Kiwi's list and review businesses">www.lista.net.nz</a></p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>The Team at Lista</p>
<p> </p>

The reslting referer URL is included in the email but it is not formed correctly.
E.G.
This is the page referer - http://www.lista.net.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=51:builders&id=81&Itemid=75

but in the emailed results the referer link is - http://www.lista.net.nz/index.php?|||||o||p||t||i||o||n||=com_content&view=article&catid=51:builders&id=81&Itemid=75/

Lots of these things|||| are inserted!!!

Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks in advance!!

Andrew

Hey,

Just had a thought after I posted this. The only difference between my staging site and my live site is the live site has .htaccess enabled. I removed this file from my site root and the referer works as expected.

Here is the contents of my .htaccess file:

##
# @version $Id: htaccess.txt 13415 2009-11-03 15:53:25Z ian $
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
# Joomla! is Free Software
##


#####################################################
#  READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE
#
# The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems
# with some server configurations.  It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file.  If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's.  If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
#
#####################################################

##  Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
Options +FollowSymLinks

#
#  mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On

########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
#
## Deny access to extension xml files (uncomment out to activate)
#<Files ~ "\.xml$">
#Order allow,deny
#Deny from all
#Satisfy all
#</Files>
## End of deny access to extension xml files
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#
########## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits

#  Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
#  is not directly related to physical file paths.
#  Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /


########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section

Can anyone help me fix what ever it is in the .htaccess file stopping the referer work?

Thanks!
Andrew