.htaccess to load index.php file for friendly url - php

Question

I have this url:
www.mywebsite.com/news/best-ever-phones
The part best-ever-phones is variable and could be anything.
index.php file is checking database for article with url best-ever-phones
The problem is that in ./news/.htaccess file I have this code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([\w-]+)/?$ index.php?article=$1 [L,QSA]
which is supposed to load index.php file but server returns error 404 Not found when I visit www.mywebsite.com/news/best-ever-phones url.
What is wrong?

Answer 1

Try this
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?article=$1 [L]

Answer 2

I think the problem may be with Rewrite base and your relative path. But this is how i'ld do it.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^news/([A-Za-z-.]+)/?$ news.php?article=$1 [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>
This should fix you up, rename your index to news.php

Answer 3

Perhaps give this a shot:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([\w-\/]+)\/?$ index.php?article=$1 [L,QSA]
This is presuming that you want the / character to appear in your $article variable, so you can logically separate different parts of the friendly URI if you want to in /news/index.php. Otherwise, single segment friendly URIs like /news-item-1 or whatnot can end with a trailing slash or not.
Really you don't want trailing slashes, as it might result in duplicate content penalties for loading the same page with a different URL (the / counts), so you could either not match \/? outside of the capture group or 301 redirect in index.php to the URL with the trailing slash removed. This way you also have clean query arguments, e.g. /news/something-big?orly=yes instead of /news/something-big/?orly=yes
I am using this site to test the rewrites. Otherwise untested as we don't have your code handy, so no way to tell whether it would work or not in your environment.

Answer 4

This code is used when we click on any url it will hide its extension.
But If you want to goto index.php page then write
echo 'Index Page ';
?>