URL rewrite rule is not working in php - php

Question

i am using godaddy hosting and addon domain. i want to make my long url to short url.
for example my url is follwing:
www.example.com/events/landing_event.php?url=text-first
and i want following url:
www.example.com/events/text-first
for this i am using following rewrite url in .htaccess file
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/$ events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
but this rewrite rule is not working.
so please help how can i make short url.

Answer 1

Use this source after you make sure RewriteEngine Enabled and On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]*)$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
The original URL:
http://www.example.com/events/landing_event.php?url=text-first
The rewritten URL:
http://www.example.com/events/text-first
Updated with 500 Internal Server Error
Your code is guaranteed to generate 500 internal server error because it is causing infinite looping. Reason is that your matching URI pattern is: ^events/([^/]*)$
Which matches your URLs before and after rewrites. And once it reaches max allowed internal rewrite limit Apache throws 500 internal server error and bails out.
Change your code to this
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
# Turn mod_rewrite on
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]*)$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L,QSA,NC]

Answer 2

Try this code :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
Add this in your .htaccess file

Answer 3

You can see there are many ways to achieve that goal.
Also
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^events/([^/]*)\.html$ /events/landing_event.php?url=$1 [L]
would do the job. So basicly, how does the full scope of your project urls look like?
Like do you always want to print the parameters? If yes, also the name sometimes or also the value?

Answer 4

The newer versions of apache requires you to change AllowOverride on /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
from
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverride All