modrewrite question

Question

I am having a problem with modrewrite using the below rule. I am getting an 404 error because the rule doesn't seem to work. can someone provide a solution on how to get it working?

RewriteRule ^/catalogue/([^/\.]+)/results.html$ /search.php?data=$1 [L]

it should process urls like the following but gives me a 404:

http://www.mydomain.com/catalogue/europe/germany/results.html

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this rule:

RewriteRule ^/catalogue/(.+?)/results.html$ /search.php?data=$1 [l]

Your rule isn't working because of your capturing pattern:

[^/\.]+

basically means:

Match anything that is not a / or a . for as many times as possible.

But it will stop at the first next / in the url, which causes it not to match anything

Answer 2

You example url is not affected by your rewrite rule; using [^/\.]+ you are allowing all characters except the forward slash and the dot, so europe/germany does not match because it has a forward slash.

I don´t know what you want to allow exactly, but for your example url you could use something like:

RewriteRule ^/catalogue/([a-zA-Z/]+)/results.html$ /search.php?data=$1 [L]

which would allow a to z (upper and lower case) and the forward slash.

Answer 3

RewriteRule ^catalogue/(.+?)/results.html$ /search.php?data=$1 [L]