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Bishal
Bishal

Reputation: 837

URL shortening by replacing GET variables

I have a web page that displays news content. The URL to the pages looks something like example.com/news.php?newsid=iphone4-releases. I want the page to be accessible through a URL like this: example.com/news/iphone4-releases

I made these changes in my .htaccess file 

RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d [OR]
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-l

RewriteRule .* - [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/news.php?newsid=$1 [NC]

This code actually replaces the URL, but I want to preserve the same URL without the GET variables. Also, using this method the URL becomes example.com/iphone4-releases but I want example.com/news/iphone4-releases

Upvotes: 0

Views: 224

Answers (3)

user1226868
user1226868

Reputation: 1758

This will do, assuming you will only use a-Z, digits and a dash in your article name:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^news/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]*)$ /news.php?newsid=$1 [NC]

Edit:

This link explains about the parameters: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond

And about the -l:

'-l' (is symbolic link) Treats the TestString as a pathname and tests whether or not it exists, and is a symbolic link.

And numbers will work in this example (eg. /news/iphone2003-new-launch)

Im sorry, but im a hurry :)

Upvotes: 1

Alex W
Alex W

Reputation: 38253

You can't expect to omit GET variables and use .htaccess to do a 303 redirect because the redirect will lose your variables. What you can do is submit a form with POST to the page you will be redirecting to and create a symlink from that page to the real PHP script, and then create a rewrite rule to redirect the client's browser.

Here's your above redirect, incorporating the added /news/ section:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d [OR]
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f [OR]
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-l

RewriteRule .* - [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ news/news.php?newsid=$1 [NC]

You can also do a redirect using only PHP:

header("Location: http://www.redirecthere.com");

Upvotes: 1

Teneff
Teneff

Reputation: 32148

Maybe you will need to remove both [OR] because you want the requested file not to be file AND not to be directory AND not to be a symbolic link 

RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-d
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-f
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_FILENAME) !-l

RewriteRule ^/(\w+)/(.*?)/?$      $1.php?newsid=$2 [NC,L]

and you don't need the whole domain to be inside your rule

Upvotes: 0

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