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Scott Fleming
Scott Fleming

Reputation: 451

Configure .htaccess to process segments of the URL

I would like to be able to process the following segments of a URL to an application:

https://example.com/app/date/category

Where

and route it to index.php for processing.

Can this be accomplished using the .htaccess file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 762

Answers (1)

MrWhite
MrWhite

Reputation: 45829

Yes, you can do this in .htaccess. How you want the values passed to your PHP script can determine exactly how you'd write the necessary directives in .htaccess.

This assumes your .htaccess file is located in the /app subdirectory and index.php is also located at /app/index.php.

One way is to use FallbackResource that specifies the URL that all requests that should be rewritten to that would otherwise trigger a 404. For example:

FallbackResource /app/index.php

Then, in index.php you would parse the required path segments from the PHP superglobal: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. Note that all URLs are routed to index.php, including those that don't match your pattern, so it is up to your PHP to process this accordingly.

Alternatively, if you want to pass the individual path segments to index.php in the form of GET params then you could do something like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/([\w-]+)$ index.php?date=$1&category=$1 [QSA,L]

The first two conditions (RewriteCond directives) ensure the request is not for a file or directory (to avoid rewriting static resources).

  • (\w+) captures the "date" path segment, which is later referenced in the substitution with the $1 backreference. \w is a shorthand character class representing the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z and _.

  • ([\w-]+) captures the "category" path segment, which is later referenced in the substitution with the $2 backreference. This also allows - (hyphen) in addition to the characters mentioned above.

Then, in your PHP code you access $_GET['date'] and $_GET['category'] to access your values.

In this second example, the request is only rewritten when it matches the expected URL request pattern, ie. /app/<date>/<category>.

Upvotes: 1

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