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Marco
Marco

Reputation: 2737

how to rewrite in a htacess file

im into SEO and friendly URL's and im trying to create a rule in my htacess file and i need help...

Basically, i have a list of alphabet letters. If the users selects one letter, the db will show all the lyrics that starts with that letter...

so if i click C, there will be a list of lyrics and the the first is 'Car and blues'

So, from this

htpp://www.website.com/lyrics.php?letter=C

i want to do this:

http://www.website.com/lyrics/C/

so far, this is what i have

RewriteRule ^lyrics/$ /lyrics.php?letter=$1 [L]

the rule should be smart enough to pick everything that comes after 'lyrics', in between the 2 slashes, and not what comes after...

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 114

Answers (2)

abhinav
abhinav

Reputation: 3217

the rule should be smart enough to pick everything that comes after 'lyrics', in between the 2 slashes, and not what comes after...

I'd suggest you look into using regular expressions to format your url. See this link

Upvotes: 0

animuson
animuson

Reputation: 54729

the rule should be smart enough to pick everything that comes after 'lyrics', in between the 2 slashes, and not what comes after...

Your rule as it stands is looking for exactly lyrics/ with no possibility of anything before or after it (as defined by the ^ and $).

Assuming you're using letters A-Z in only capitals, you can use this:

RewriteRule ^lyrics/([A-Z])/?$ /lyrics.php?letter=$1 [L]

This will look for a single capital letter after the lyrics/ and send that value to the rewrite URL and also match both cases of having a trailing / or not.

Upvotes: 4

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