I have a small question to ask. Is it possible, via php or htaccess, to change a url like: miodominio.com/users.php?idu=x into something like miodominio.com/username ?
I want it to be Facebook style...Where "username" is the username chosen by idu = x.
There are multiple ways to solve this problem, but here's one that always suits my needs.
Guide all your URL requests through the index.php first and resolve the request in your PHP code second.
1) Use an .htaccess file to direct all URL's through index.php. You'll find one way here by the CodeIgniter framework and a more advanced explanation here. I recommend the CodeIgniter .htaccess guide first if you're inexperienced with .htaccess.
2) Second, use the $_SERVER variable in PHP to extract the URL. Probably with the help of the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], you'll find '/username/' which you can then use to extract the user's data and serve it to them.
Good luck and beware of URL injections using this method.
You need to use apache's mod_rewrite for this. It can translate miodominio.com/username to miodominio.com/users.php?idu=x. There are some good guides about this which are easy to find with Google.
You can try to use this mod_rewrite pattern (add it to the .htaccess):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ users.php?idu=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ users.php?idu=$1
you have to write a clean URL in your .htaccess file like :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ users.php?idu=$1
Put the following in your .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)/?$ /users.php?idu=$1 [NC]
The [NC] will make it case-insensitive, if you accept only lowercase username, remove the [NC] from the last.
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I am trying to build a site which has the following pages which needs vanity urls,
account.php
questions.php
profile.php
I need to display
www.mysite.com/account?req=settings
www.mysite.com/account?req=questions
www.mysite.com/account?req=answers
as following
www.mysite.com/account/settings
www.mysite.com/account/questions
www.mysite.com/account/answers
And for the other files I need the following,
etc:-
www.mysite.com/questions?id=0484684
As
www.mysite.com/questions/0484684
And
www.mysite.com/profile?id=123456
as
www.mysite.com/profile/123456
Would anyone help me because I really need to make this possible.
I would like to remove the .php extention from the url too.
I like to say that I have no experience in htaccess files.
Thanks for the help, it worked !!!
In your .htaccess file, add these rules:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^account/([^/\.]+)/?$ account.php?req=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^questions/([^/\.]+)/?$ questions.php?id=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/\.]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1 [L,NC,QSA]
You should be able to add new rules based on how these work if you need them in the future.
You'll want to use a .htaccess file combined with PHP for complex manipulations like that, I wrote an article on re-writing URLs after asking a similar question on SO:
http://tomsbigbox.com/elegant-url-rewriting/
How do I strip a part of the url? I do not know much about htaccess or apache.
I would like to strip www.mysite.com/page=services to www.mysite.com/services for example.
What exactly do I need to put in the .htaccess file in order to achieve this, and would that work for other pages as well?
Thanks.
I tried this for one of my sites lately and came up with this and for me it works fine,
this goes into the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [NC,L]
then if you would write yoursite.com/pagename it would send yoursite.com/index.php?page=pagename to your php.
You will link to the page like so: yoursite.com/pagename
it wont change yoursite.com/index.php?page=pagename to yoursite.com/pagename in the adress bar after you send it.(if that makes sense :) )
I hope this is what you are looking for...
I think you mean your original URL to be www.mysite.com/index.php?page=services and not www.mysite.com/page=services
Also, you probably mean the opposite, you should switch www.mysite.com/services to www.mysite.com/index.php?page=service
Anyway, to change www.mysite.com/services to www.mysite.com/index.php?page=services then you need .htaccess, and the rule for that would be RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]
As suggested earlier, you should read about .htaccess, regex, and rewrite rules. Best resource is the apache documentation here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html
I read your comment earlier that you need the opposite, I am not sure why you need that, because the whole idea of URL shortining is to make easy-to-remember URLs in addition to some security concerns that can be resolved. The URL is the first thing that is sent to load your webpage, then .htaccess changes it to some form undrstandable by PHP then PHP deals with get parameters for example.
i am looking for htaccss code. i want like if some one vist
domain.com/folder/ver-234123.html
domain.com/folder/ver-4234234.html
domain.com/folder/ver-kahsdkf.html
so it all baiscally open domain.com/folder/index.php
i will randomize the number/digits after ver- via php.
You want to use mod_rewrite.
Assuming "/folder" actually exists and this .htaccess would be within it.
This should be a fairly simple rewrite. Something like:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/?ver-[a-z0-9]*\.html index.php [L,QSA]
i'm new to mod_rewrite, and i'm trying to convert my web address from:
website.com/profile.php?user=andy
to the following:
website.com/user/andy
This is my following code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?user=$1 [NC,L]
I researched extensively and this does seem to be the correct way to do it, but it doesn't redirect to where i want it to, it just redirects to this:
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
which means i must doing something wrong...
Can anyone help me out here? I would appreciate any tips.
If you want
http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy ->301-> http://website.com/user/andy
http://website.com/user/andy means http://website.com/profile.php?user=andy
They are 2 different things, you'll need 2 rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^user=([A-Za-z0-9]+)
RewriteRule ^profile.php /user/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^user/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?a=b&user=$1 [L]
The first will 301 (moved permanently) redirect to the pretty url.
The second will allow your application to understand the pretty url.
Whenever you change the url scheme for a site you should take care of existing links. As such, that first rule is required/a good idea. You should not, however, need the first rule when using your own application. If your own application is generating links to profile.php?user=me - change your application code.
You have to change your URLs when outputting them in your HTML to be in the format you want (/user/andy).
mod_rewrite will rewrite /user/andy to main.php?... not the other way around.
What do you mean by my result?
mod_rewrite won't change existing links in your source code. Navigate to website.com/user/andy and you should see it work.
when my user logs in, I want the get variables that were sent rewrote onto the URL like so:
http://mysite.com/mygetvar1/mygetvar_value1/mygetvar2/mygetvar_value2/
or
mysite.com/mygetvar1=mygetvar_value1/mygetvar2=mygetvar_value2/
How can I do this?
Please help! Thanks!
Codeigniter can offer you like that. Many other PHP frameworks offer that as well.
Try this.
RewriteRule /([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/ /login.php?$1=$2&$3=$4 [R=301]
RewriteRule /([^/]*)=([^/]*)/([^/]*)=([^/]*)/ /login.php?$1=$2&$3=$4 [R=301]
First you need the mod_rewrite module enable.
After, put this in your config file :
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^ads/(rims|tires|combo)/([0-9]+)/(.+).html /ad.php?noAds=$2 [L,QSA]
This is a example.
Your url will look like : http://www.yourwebsite.com/ads/rims/331/title.html
but you will call the url : http//www.yourwebsite.com/ad.php?noAds=331
For your regex , you should use a site like http://www.rubular.com
You can use the .htaccess file or put in directly in the httpd.conf file