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Oliver Kucharzewski
Oliver Kucharzewski

Reputation: 2645

Rewritten URL shows 404 errors

I have re-written my URL from website.com?id=1 to website.com/1 and I'm getting 404 errors when trying to access the page and cannot think of a solution to this. I'm currently developing a link shortener. This is required so users will be able to access their shorted links.

This is my current .htaccessfile

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /(index\.php)?\?id=([0-9]+)([^\ ]*)
RewriteRule ^ /%3?%4 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ /?id=$1 [L,QSA]

I cannot figure out whether this has something to do with the .htaccess file or if I need to add something else to my php code.

Would someone have some sort of idea? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (2)

DaveRandom
DaveRandom

Reputation: 88647

You need to explicitly rewrite back to index.php in your second rule. By the time rewrite rules are processed the DirectoryIndex directive has already been processed (or may never be processed at all - it depends a little on your virtual host configuration and in what scope the DirectoryIndex directive was declared).

The end result of this is that you need to explicitly rewrite the request to the script that you want to handle the request, you can't just rewrite it to the root of a directory. Try changing your second rewrite rule to:

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

On a personal note, it's interesting to see someone else use the %{THE_REQUEST} approach to this problem, this is an idea that I myself only recently came up with, although presumably I am not the first to do so. For the benefit of future visitors, here is a related post that explains why this requirement would come about and the thinking behind it.

Upvotes: 1

Coder anonymous
Coder anonymous

Reputation: 927

I think you have written wrong rewrite rules.

They must be something like this:

for example.com/website.php?id=x..

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^/]+)$
  RewriteRule ^website\.php$ %1/ [L]

as discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4951918/2274209

Hope this will solve your query.

Upvotes: 0

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