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rdbisme
rdbisme

Reputation: 877

Url Rewriting - Always redirecting to index.php

i'm trying to rewrite some simple urls:

http://www.site.com/folder/index.php?page=something

into

http://www.site.com/folder/something

here's my .htaccess file ( placed in /folder/ )

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /folder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [R]

with this rule i always get this URL

    http://www.site.com/folder/index.php?page=index.php

what am i doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2647

Answers (5)

rdbisme
rdbisme

Reputation: 877

Thanks to everyone i succeeded in doing what i was thinking to do:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /folder/

#Excluding direct url to php files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)\.php$
#Excluding the empty space url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(\s*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js|)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

Upvotes: 0

Kneel-Before-ZOD
Kneel-Before-ZOD

Reputation: 4221

First, change

 
RewriteBase /folder

to


RewriteBase /folder/

Second, change 

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

to

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

That should work. The QSA part is to allow any querystring in the address to be carried over to the new address; otherwise, they will be dropped.

Edit

In that case, try this

 
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

similar to what you had earlier.
Unless you have other patterns, that should achieve what you need

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 2

Michel Feldheim
Michel Feldheim

Reputation: 18250

Your initial rule worked perfectly. The only problem was the [R] modifier which redirected /folder/something to /folder/index.php?page=something and caused a second request.

Apply your rule on /folder/index.php?page=something and you get /folder/index.php?page=index.php

To fix this replace [R] ( HTTP 302 Redirect ) by [L] ( leave matching chain when you match here ) and you're done

Upvotes: 0

Digitalis
Digitalis

Reputation: 570

If I may suggest, please look into a generator for htaccess, such as: http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/

which gives you:

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

I've editted the above, this is a working example on a local testdomain. Perhaps this is just what you have been looking for.

Also, if I may, omitting the extension of a page is not recommendable. Google likes it to be recognizable e.g. .html or .php.

And, you should add a rewriterule for every parameter you add.

Finally, I would omit the index.php. Your server will automatically load index.php if no other page is found, but it doesn't have to be visible in the addressbar.

Upvotes: -1

Ben Carey
Ben Carey

Reputation: 16948

You are referencing the wrong match, use $2 like so

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /folder

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$2 [R]

The above is infact incorrect. It seems that the . is not matching the correct characters (I don't know why).

The best way I can see getting round this without knowing the cause of the issue is to simply match letters and numbers like so:

# Turn on the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On

# Set the rewrites for /folder
RewriteBase /folder

# Set the rewrite rules
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC]

Upvotes: 1

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