I have a url that looks like this
http://mysite.com/item/?food=1&drink=1&bar=1&name=Bomba
I want to make it more friendly and maybe more secure and to look something like
http://mysite.com/item/Bomba
The problem is that sometime drink or bar will not be part of the url, so I don't know how to make it to work with .htaccess. Also I don't know how to make rules for multiple get variables and if I can use conditionals in a rewrite rule (if drink==true or something similar).
And also I don't want to use post because I want to be able to share the link.
So far I made something like this
mysite.com/item/1/Bomba.menu
and the rule
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^item/(.+)/(.+).menu item/?food=$1&drink=$1&bar=$1&name=Bomba [nc]
But it only works if the url stays the same.
Thanks
So at last I made this short link http://mysite.com/item/1/D1/W1/Bomba that is taking me here http://mysite.com/item/?food=1&drink=1&wine=1&name=Bomba
And added this rules to the .htaccess file.
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^item/(.+)/(D.)/(W.)/(B.+)/(.+) item/?food=$1&drink=$1&wine=$1&bar=$1&name=$5 [nc]
RewriteRule ^item/(.+)/(D.+)/(W.+)/(.+) item/?food=$1&drink=$1&wine=$1&name=$4 [nc]
RewriteRule ^item/(.+)/(D.+)/(B.+)/(.+) item/?food=$1&drink=$1&bar=$1&name=$4 [nc]
RewriteRule ^item/(.+)/(W.+)/(B.+)/(.+) item/?food=$1&wine=$1&bar=$1&name=$4 [nc]
I hope that it will help somebody.
:)
[EDITED Answer]
You would need to have them set as key/value pairs as you have no way to tell if is a Drink or a Bar ID.
The other way I can think of, which won't look quite as elegant is to prefix the ids, so if it was a Drink ID then make the dynamic URL:
http://mysite.com/item/D1/B4
Then if it is prefixed with 'D' then it is a drink, 'B' for bar etc
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I know there's a million similar questions on stuff like this, but clearly there's much I don't understand because I haven't been able to derive answers or a solution to my (as I understand it) fairly simple question.
Basically, I'm trying to get an old site back up, but want a more professional look to it this time round, which includes cleaning up the URLs. A typical page is as follows (hosted locally at the moment, but will be assigned a domain in next few days):
192.168.0.200/album-reviews.php?albid=22
Using the following code, I have been able to achieve the above example page loading via manually typing 192.168.0.200/album-reviews/22 into the browser:
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([0-9a-zA-Z]+) album-reviews.php?albid=$1 [NC,L]
However, what I want as well is for when the link is clicked on my site, it directs the user to /album-reviews/22 instead of album-reviews.php?albid=22. The only way to get the clean URL at the moment is to manually type it into the bar, links from my site do not get the clean URL, the code I have been playing around with (and have been unable to get working) based on sources I've found is this:
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([0-9a-zA-Z]+)
RewriteRule ^ /album-reviews/%1? [L,R]
So if anyone could shed some light on how I get all this working as desired, I'd be grateful, I hope my question has been articulated appropriately.
On a side note, If i wanted to include the post title in the URL too like this:
192.168.0.200/album-reviews.php?albid=22&ptitle=my first post
how would alter any code to make it like this:
192.168.0.200/album-reviews/22/my first post
Thank you.
You can use:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([^\s&]+)&ptitle=([^\s&]+)
RewriteRule ^ album-reviews/%1/%2? [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /album-reviews/?(?:\.php)?\?albid=([^\s&]+)
RewriteRule ^ album-reviews/%1? [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([^/]+)/?$ album-reviews.php?albid=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ album-reviews.php?albid=$1&ptitle=$2 [NC,L]
If you want to show the contents of http://yoursite.com/album-reviews.php?albid=22 at the url http://yoursite.com/album-reviews/22, you need these codes:
Your htaccess needs this lines:
RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteRule ^album-reviews/(.*)$ album-reviews.php?pretty=$1 [L,QSA]
And your PHP these:
$pretty = $_GET['pretty'];
$parameters = explode('/',$pretty);
$albid = $parameters[0];
Your user won't be redirected, your website will show directly the page at the pretty url.
Now, what happened? That you instructed htaccess to send everything after album-reviews as a GET parameter called "pretty". Then in your PHP you cut it for every / that appeared in it, and that way you formed the array $parameters. So you can even get more parameters, for every /, they are all in the array $parameters:
$second_parameter = $parameters[1];
$third_parameter = $parameters[2];
$fourth_parameter = $parameters[3];
I think this has been discussed over here in past but i don't know exactly what i have to search for so please if you could help just give me a hand.
Well i want to create a url rewrite with multiple options. I cannot explain here with few so i would rather give a simple example.
A url:
example.com/info.php?id=1
example.com/info.php?id=1&edit
I want to rewrite to like this
example.com/info/1
example.com/info/1/edit
I think you want the opposite: example.com/info/1 -> example.com/info.php?id=1
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^info/([^/]+)/edit/?$ info.php?id=$1&edit [L]
RewriteRule ^info/([^/]+)/?$ info.php?id=$1 [L]
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+) /casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=$1 [NC]
Currenty using the above code to conver http://localhost/casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=3 to
http://localhost/casino2/news/3 now what problem is i am trying to make one url out of two query strings like if url is localhost/casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=3 & pagename=article the url should be localhost/casino2/news/article is it possible to do so ?
To start with, those rules appear to do the opposite of what you say you want - i.e. they're rewriting "/localhost/casino2/news/4711" to "/casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=4711".
Provided this is what you really mean, what you need to do is to save two items into two variables, instead of just one into one variable, like this:
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+)/([^/]+) /casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=$1&pagename=$2 [NC]
If the newsid is always 1, so that you don't need to pass it to the php, you simply create it in your replacement, like this
RewriteRule ^news/([^/]+) /casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=1&pagename=$1 [NC]
This would create the following rewrites:
/news/article -> /casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=1&pagename=article
/news/somethingelse -> /casino2/newsdetail.php?newsid=1&pagename=article
But if you want to be able to select different newsids, you need to pass it in somewhere - either as part of the URL or as a querystring.
Just to be clear, the way the rules are applied is
RewriteRule "What the URL looks like in the browser" "What my web server expects"
If you have problems, I highly suggest you turn on a lot of debug logging, it'll be a great help. The relevant config lines are
RewriteLog /path/to/logfile
RewriteLogLevel 3
I am currently coding a pagination script into many parts of my site, this has been a well needed and requested feature and I have finally been able to come round and start coding it, it is all going well, until I find that my rewritten urls don't like working with the pagination urls.
So, an example page on my site would be news.php. This file structure can be something like news.php?id=5. I have rewritten the url like so:
/news/5/
## Rewrite URL's for News & Dev ##
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)/$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^news$ /news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/$ /news.php [L]
The pagination script I am using prepends two new variables in the url, the new url turns out to be this:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I would really appreciate it if anyone could assist me in making the urls look better, as it defeats the object of having it in the first place if after they use the pagination, it changes the url back to a clunky and ugly url.
I don't want it to be required to have parts of the url, that is something I really don't want..
e.g I don't want the url to be required to be /news/1/55/5, instead id like it to be optional.
Thank you for your time, it is appreciated!
Additional Information
The links in my news script currently display like so:
news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
I don't like to see ugly urls like that, and want to make the url look better using mod_rewrite, It would be better if the urls would display like so:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
Also, to make it as user friendly as possible, I don't want any of the fields to be required as such, so for example I would like to have the following link accessible at all times without it requiring the other fields.
/news/ID/
Then, when the user clicks a pagination link, it would use the following link structure:
/news/PAGE/IPP/ID/ -> return news.php?page=1&ipp=55id=5
This is all from user feedback of my site, and is something that people have been asking for. Problem is, I don't understand even simple .htaccess
Thanks
RewriteBase /
# add slash to end of url if not present (and do a redirect)
RewriteCond $0 !/$
RewriteRule ^news([^\.]*)$ $0/ [L,R=302]
# rewrite url with format /news/[<id>/[<page>/[<ipp>/]]]
RewriteRule ^news/(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?(?:([0-9]+)/)?$ /news.php?id=$1&page=$2&ipp=$3 [L]
Not sure what ipp is supposed to be, but my guess is it shows the number of item per page. I would personally not like to have that in my url.
You can have :
news/id/page/ipp with
RewriteRule ^news(/?)$ news.php [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)-(.*)_([0-9]+)(/?)$ news.php?page=$1&ipp=$2&id=$3 [L]
news/1222-subjet-for-example_34
return :
news.php?page=1222&ipp=subject-for-example&id=34
use (/?) instead of create many rules ;)
Hope it's works for you.
So here's the deal:
episode.php?s=1&e=3 brings up information for season 1 episode 3.
So make it SEO friendly I want to be able to have users be able go to the following:
domain.com/episodes/ShowName_Season_1_Episode_3_The_Title_Of_The_Episode.html (or without the .html, doesn't really matter).
This is what I have so far:
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9-]+)_$_([a-z0-9-]+)_$_([a-z0-9-]+).html episode.php?s=$1&e=$2
I know this is not right...how can I make it take the two numbers in the rewritten URL and associate them with PHP GET variables in the actual URL?
I know how to do more basic mod_rewrites but this one has been confusing me. I am guessing it is something stupid, so thanks in advance for your patience.
Here's what you can do:
RewriteEngine ON
#domain.com/episodes/ShowName_Season_1_Episode_3_The_Title_Of_The_Episode.html
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9\-]+)_Season_([0-9]+)_Episode_([0-9]+)_(.*)$ episode.php?s=$2&e=$3 [NC,L]
#Even more SEO friendly: http://domain.com/ShowName/Season/3/episode/4/title/
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9\-]+)/season/([0-9]+)/episode/([0-9]+)/(.*)/? episode.php?s=$2&e=$3 [NC,L]
#or Even more SEO friendly: http://domain.com/episodes/ShowName/season-3/episode-1/title
RewriteRule ^episodes/([a-z0-9\-]+)/season\-([0-9]+)/episode\-([0-9]+)/(.*)/? episode.php?s=$2&e=$3 [NC,L]
I don't recommend to use "_" for SEO but "-"