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apache.htaccessmod-rewriteurl-rewriting
Alen Šimunic
Alen Šimunic

Reputation: 553

Simple RewriteRule doesn't change URL

The thing I ask for is truly simple. I want to get from this:

http://test.com/index.php?articles=mynewarticle&id=5

to this:

http://test.com/mynewarticle.html

and I don't understand why, but the following .htaccess is not doing the job:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?articles=$1&id=5 [L]

When I type in 

http://test.com/index.php?articles=mynewarticle&id=5

I get 

http://test.com/index.php?articles=mynewarticle&id=5

Not sure if something is modified in Apache in the way that disables this option for me and I don't know where to check this. Thanks in advance for any of the help provided.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 289

Answers (1)

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41219

You need a combination of external and internal RewriteRules to convert orignal url into SEO friendly format 

RewriteEngine on
#redirect "/index.php?articles=foobar&id=123" to "/foobar.html"
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?articles=([^&]+)&id=.+ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1.html [NE,L,R]
#rewrite "/foobar.html" to "/index.php?articles=foobar&id=5
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?articles=$1&id=5 [L]

Upvotes: 1

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