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.htaccessurl-rewriting
Can
Can

Reputation: 156

.htaccess rewrite URL to simulated subfolder

I would like to rewrite the URL from

https://www.example.com/index.php?page=SOMEPAGE&user=SOMEUSER

to

https://www.example.com/settings/user/SOMEUSER

where settings is the page parameter from the URL. My Solution was: 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([-0-9a-zA-Z]+)/user/([-0-9a-zA-Z]+)$ index.php?page=$1&user=$2 [QSA,L]

The problem is, that all files respond with a 404 error code, because the browser seems to think that /settings/user are actual folders on the server. How can I achieve that the actual URL path stays the same?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 56

Answers (1)

MrWhite
MrWhite

Reputation: 45829

The problem would seem to be that you are using relative URLs to your resources. If you are changing the path depth of your URLs then you need to ensure you are using either root-relative (starting with a slash) or absolute (with a scheme + hostname) URLs throughout.

See my answer on the following question on the Webmasters SE site for more information:

because the browser seems to think that /settings/user are actual folders on the server.

No, the browser sees that as the URL-path. It IS the URL-path as seen in the browser. Any relative client-side URLs are going to be relative to this URL-path. The browser has non concept of what are server-side folders, it only deals with URLs.

How can I achieve that the actual URL path stays the same?

You are changing the URL-path in the browser, so the only way round this is to make your URLs non-relative.

Upvotes: 1

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