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.htaccessurlvariablesurl-rewriting
Darren Parker
Darren Parker

Reputation: 71

Re-writing URL's with variables (.htaccess)

The CMS I have created uses a variable called "filename" that's passed via the URL to generate pages.

My typical URL looks like this:

/index.php?filename=about.html

I would like to amend my URL's to look like this:

/about.html

Of course I would also like my URL when first visiting the page to look like this: 

/index.html

(Replace .php with .html)

I'm new to using the .htaccess file but would really like to amend my URL's to look this way, I hope that's possible. Thanks guys!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 72

Answers (1)

mkjasinski
mkjasinski

Reputation: 3088

Try this:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([0-9a-zA-Z\-]+.html)$ index.php?filename=$1 [L,NC]
</IfModule>

For example, if I run: http://so.localhost/This-is-your-page.html result of var_dump($_GET); is:

array (size=1)
  'filename' => string 'This-is-your-page.html' (length=22)

I hope I helped.

Upvotes: 1

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