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Igor
Igor

Reputation: 673

Trying to get a friendly url but nothing happens

I'm trying to hide part of url and show only the variables like directories.

For example: Change from https://somesite.com/users.php?user=Alex to https://somesite.com/Alex/ or from https://somesite.com/users.php?user=Alex&tab=photos to https://somesite.com/Alex/photos/.

My .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    # hide GET variables from url for messages page.
    RewriteRule ^messages/(.*) messages.php?message=$1 [L,QSA]

    # hide users.php and transforming variables in directories.
    RewriteRule ^/%1 users.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

But, if I access https://somesite.com/users.php?user=Alex nothing happens and if I access https://somesite.com/Alex/ error 404 is returned.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 70

Answers (4)

michalsrb
michalsrb

Reputation: 4891

I don't see how could the last RewriteRule do what you want. You could use this instead:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ users.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ users.php?user=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

Edit: You can also use mod_rewrite to redirect those who use the old url to new url. This should work:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}     ^user=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^/users.php$        /%1/               [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}     ^user=([^&]+)&tab=([^&]+)$
RewriteRule ^/users.php$        /%1/%2/            [NC,L,R=301]

Alternative;y you can read REQUEST_URI variable in php (it should contain the address before rewrite) and detect if it was the old one. If it was, then redirect to the new one.

Upvotes: 1

Miguel Angel Mendoza
Miguel Angel Mendoza

Reputation: 1312

It seems that the easiest solution is to send every query to index.php?q=$1 or another script.php to manage the path:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

index.php can check both cases:

<?php

 $q = explode('/',$_GET['q']);
 $query=$q[0]; 


 if($query=='messages'){ 
    $message = $q[1];
    require "messages.php"; 
 }else{
    $user = $query;
    require "users.php"; 
 }

?>

Upvotes: 1

Atif Tariq
Atif Tariq

Reputation: 2772

Please write this code in your .htaccess file

    RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
    RewriteRule    ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    users.php?user=$1    [NC,L]
    RewriteRule    ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    users.php?user=$1&tab=$2    [NC,L]

Upvotes: 1

Miguel Angel Mendoza
Miguel Angel Mendoza

Reputation: 1312

Use this code for users.php script:

RewriteRule  (.*) users.php?user=$1 [L,QSA]

This rule must be after messages rule in that order to work for both cases.

Upvotes: 1

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