CODEWITHSUNDEEP
.htaccess
Phil Shotton
Phil Shotton

Reputation: 105

Get Rewrite rules to be ignored on specific URL's

I have re-created a site from WordPress in native PHP, and have added certain ReWrite rules in the .htaccess to mimic the WP URL's, but I need to add a couple of reWrite rules to beautify a couple of URL's.

I tried creating 2 directories and having separate .htaccess files in each directory, but to no avail.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# hide .php extension snippet

# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R,L]

# add a trailing slash    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

# To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

#Beautify new URL's
RewriteRule ^operating-areas/([^/]+) town.php?place=$1
RewriteRule ^operating-area/([^/]+)/([^/]+) keyword.php?place=$1&keyword=$2

www.domain.com/operating-areas/London

needs to be sent to

myPage.php?place=London

and then

www.domain.com/operating-area/London/Finance

needs to be sent to

myOtherPage.php?place=London&keyword=Finance

At the moment I am getting 'Too many redirections'.

The rules I have used for the WordPress styling were found on the internet, hence my limited knowledge of this subject hinders me from stopping them firing in specific circumstances.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 23

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785266

You can replace all of your code with this block:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# hide .php extension snippet

# To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1/ [R,L]

# add a trailing slash    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule . %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

#Beautify new URL's
RewriteRule ^operating-areas/([^/]+)/?$ town.php?place=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

RewriteRule ^operating-area/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ keyword.php?place=$1&keyword=$2 [L,QSA,NC]

# To internally forward /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ $1.php [L]

/?$ at the end of the pattern allows matching of an optional / at the end. It is also important to keep this rule before .php adding rule.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions