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VinceBrown
VinceBrown

Reputation: 95

Clean query strings urls with .htaccess

I am in need of help with the damn htaccess file, RegEx just confuses me I can handle the basic redirects but once it gets into query strings I lose it.

So here is the problem

I am trying to clean up my urls so I want to take the original path: 

http://localhost/webcampaign/projects/project.php?id=1917-Bungalow

and have it show up has

http://localhost/webcampaign/projects/1917-Bungalow

this is a photo of file structure to give a better idea

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I have all projects in an array set up like this 

$projects = array();
$projects["1917-Bungalow"] = array(
 "name" => "1917 Bungalow",
 "heroClass" => "hero-bungalow",
 "mainImg" => BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_main.jpg",
 "previewImg" => BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_preview.jpg",
 "year" => "2013",
 "yearClass" => "twenty13",
 "location" => "Autstin, Texas",
 "photographer" => "Rachel Cruz",
 "detailOne" => BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_detail1.jpg",
 "detailTwo" => BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_detail2.jpg",
 "detailThree" => BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_detail3.jpg",
 "detailFour" => BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_detail4.jpg",
 "description" => "lorem ipsum and shit",
 "detailOneSum" => "lorem ipsum",
 "detailTwoSum" => "lorem ipsum",
 "detailThreeSum" => "lorem ipsum",
 "detailFourSum" => "Lorem ipsum",
 "materials" => array("matOne","matTwo","matThree"),
 "materialImg" => array(BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_mat1.jpg",BASE_URL        .             "images/bungalow_mat2.jpg",BASE_URL ."images/bungalow_mat3.jpg"),
"testamonialImg" => BASE_URL ."images/client.jpg",
"testamonial" => "Cabin Is Great!"
);

And then in the project.php page I access the individual projects with

 $project_id = $_GET["id"];
 $project = $projects[$project_id];

Would that effect anything? thanks I am a total newb at this

This was my last attempt with the Rewrite

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^project.php$ /projects/%1/? [R=301]

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

Upvotes: 0

Views: 357

Answers (2)

cOle2
cOle2

Reputation: 4784

The ^ character matches the beginning of the path but the path in the URL starts with webcampaign not project.php.

Try dropping the ^ from your RewriteRule. I also think you need to drop the /projects/ from the redirect URL since it looks like that is the directory the .htaccess resides in.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /webcampaign/

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(.*)$
RewriteRule project.php$ projects/%1? [R=301]

EDIT:

So based on your updated question it seems you want the inverse of what was requested as the rewrite module only rewrites incoming URLs, not those that your script outputs.

First thing is in your HTML output to change your links to the format that is to be displayed. This is what the commenter meant by "adjusting the links on the html pages".

echo '<a href="http://localhost/webcampaign/projects/1917-Bungalow">1917 Bungalow</a>';

Next use these new .htaccess rules to rewrite the above URL to your project.php page with the correct id parameter:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /webcampaign/

RewriteRule projects/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ projects/project.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

Upvotes: 1

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785128

Put this code in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} \s/+(webcampaign/projects)/project\.php\?id=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2? [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(webcampaign/projects)/([^/]+)/?$ $1?id=$2 [L,QSA,NC]

Upvotes: 0

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