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anthropos9
anthropos9

Reputation: 13

Masking file name with htaccess

I have a client that has several files whose name is (for example) car.php, car_edit.php, car_review.php. These each come with query strings - so car.php?id=1234 or car_review.php?id=321. They would like the file names to be truck*.php rather than car*.php.

I'm hoping there's a way using htaccess to convert the url string to be truck*.php and use the current car*.php files. Also if possible I'd like to forward any page asking for car*.php to truck*.php.

I've done quite a bit of searching and haven't found an answer to doing this particular thing. Does anyone know how I might do this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 107

Answers (2)

Phil Perry
Phil Perry

Reputation: 2130

  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule  ^truck(.*)\.php$   /car$1.php  [NC]

ought to do it. It should automatically transfer any URL query string like id=xxx over to the car*.php rewritten URL.

Upvotes: 0

Dale Myers
Dale Myers

Reputation: 2821

You need rewrite rules. Try something like:

RewriteRule ^truck(.*).php$ /car.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

Note: This is untested, so may require tweaking.

Upvotes: 1

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