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MasterT
MasterT

Reputation: 623

.htaccess with file extension removed and routing

Hi,

I am in the middle of a project and I am using Mod_Rewrite and .htaccess to change some URLS. I want the file extension to be removed but once the user is signed in, they go to a folder called portal and then, /portal/index.php runs all the pages.

Here is the code I currently have:

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

This is not working, but I feel that I am close to the end result I'm hoping for.

The URL for pages should be like: 

site.com/home
site.com/otherpage

and so on. These should be sent to:

/home.php
/otherpage.php

etc.

But once the user is logged in, the URL: 

site.com/portal/index.php?page=section/section2/so-on

Should be re-written to:

site.com/portal/section/section2/so-on

With what I have, the first rule works, but the rest does not.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 153

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785681

Always keep the order of the rules from most specific to most generic in .htaccess. Your complete .htaccess should be:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^portal/(.*)$ /portal/index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

Explanation:

Rule 1 is simple. It is forwarding every /portal/foo URI which is not a physical file to /portal/index.php?page=foo. Flags L for last rule, QSA is for appending existing query string and NC is for ignore case matching.

Rule 2 is forwarding a URI like /bar/ to /bar.php if it is not a real directory and there is actually a file calle /bar.php. Rexex ^(.*?)/?$ is there for stripping out trailing slash (note /bar/ goes to /bar.php).

Upvotes: 1

Connor Gurney
Connor Gurney

Reputation: 690

You need to reorder the rules as the first one sends /portal/section/section2/so-on to /portal/section/section2/so-on.

It needs to be:

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

Upvotes: 0

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