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Jack
Jack

Reputation: 33

.htaccess and making urls friendly

All I want to do is remove a section of my urls, i assume that this is the easiest way.

This is how my URLs currently look:

subdomain.domain.com/site/blog/?action=viewArticle&url=$postTile

I want to remove:

?action=viewArticle&url=

So that I end up with something like:

subdomain.domain.com/site/blog/$postTitle

I've tried the below, but I've had no joy:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule   ^ subdomain.domain.com/site/bwc/(blog)/(.*)/$   /bwc/blog/?action=viewArticle&url=$2

Please help - I think I need to utilise MOD_REWRITE, but I'm not too sure how. I also need a solution that will allow the friendly URLs to be linked too - can .htaccess/apache do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 108

Answers (1)

php_nub_qq
php_nub_qq

Reputation: 16055

RewriteRule  ^site/bwc/blog/(.*?)/$ site/blog/?action=viewArticle&url=$1

But note that in this case your urls will always have to end with a / for this to work

What the rewrite rule does is basically php's str_replace on the URI. It will run the regular expression you provide on the request URI and replace it with the replacement you have also given. To have a better understanding you need to be good with Regular Expressions, that some say are a language all by themselves. (.*?) is a capture group in regex. Capture groups can be accessed as $\d in replacement strings where \d will be the consecutive number of the capture group in the pattern.

Long story short if you send a request that matches the regex pattern it will grab it, do the replacements and send that to the server, instead of the address you entered.

Upvotes: 3

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