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Chuck Le Butt
Chuck Le Butt

Reputation: 48798

Altering an Apache CustomURL / Rewrite

I had the following rewriting set up in my .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^(\w+)/?$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

It worked great for a-z A-Z 0-9, but now I need to add support for hyphens.

So I changed it to:

RewriteRule ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

But now PHP can't see the contents of $_GET["customURL"] (i.e. it's empty). What have I done wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (3)

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 6346

Change it to:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)?$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

Should work now.

Upvotes: 1

mdoyle
mdoyle

Reputation: 727

Looks like you skipped the parantheses to group for $1:

^([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

Upvotes: 0

hjpotter92
hjpotter92

Reputation: 80649

Change the rule to this:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ profile.php?customURL=$1 [NC,L]

and it works like a charm.

Upvotes: 2

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