Comments on: Htaccess, Apache, And Rewrites! Oh, My!

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:43:17 +0000

I’m just learning about htaccess and this article was a godsend. Thanks to you, I was able to rid myself of that ugly “index.php” on my homepage, which should help with SEO. More importantly, I understood what I was doing, instead of just copy-pasting from someone else’s htaccess.

By: zk2

zk2 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:06:46 +0000

I’ve been trying to find a solution to my question. Having Googled, I’ve found various code snippets that have pointed me into the right direction, and I’ve come up with the following:

Options +FollowSymlinks
Options All -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/products/([0-9]+)/\?page=([0-9]+)$ /products/?x=$1&page=$2 [L]

I’ve tried many permutations of that RewiteRule, but I just can’t get it to work.

I’ve also tried implementing the following method with no success:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/products/\?x=([0-9]*)&page=([0-9]*)$
RewriteRule ^/products/([0-9]*)/\?page=([0-9]*)$ /accounts/?user=%1&page=%2 [NC,L]

What I’m doing wrong?

It maybe worth pointing out that I’ve placed the rules into the root .htaccess file only, but I want the rule to apply to only the products directory. I don’t know if the correct way would be to add a seperate .htaccess to the products directory?

By: zk2

zk2 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:58:37 +0000

Is it possible to translate a query string value into a directory name through .htaccess?

So could we convert http://www.mydomain.com/products/?x=482001 into http://www.mydomain.com/products/482001/

And what if the query string wasn’t as simple as my first example. Say it was made up of an undetermined number of key=value pairs it didn’t follow a predefined structure, like http://www.mydomain.com/products/?x=482001&y=1&p=1 or http://www.mydomain.com/products/?y=1&p=1&x=482001&u=78

Is it possible to always get the value of x in the query string and convert it into a directory name?

By: jeroen

jeroen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:36:34 +0000

Just serfed in. Great site, guys!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:57:51 +0000

I thank the Lord for giving us the gift of brilliant preachers!t

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Toto web Hosting — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:46:23 +0000

thanks for you replay Kyle. I will try it and then let you know.

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By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:52:02 +0000

Just a quick note to thank you again for this resource. I find myself returning here everytime I have an htaccess question.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:35:53 +0000

@totonet:

I believe something like this should work:

RewriteRule ^des/(.*) /$1 [R=301,L]

@Kelly:

Most likely something is being misstyped. Double check that everything is spelled correctly. If you’re still getting an error, only put the first couple lines and keep adding more until the error comes up, then you’ll know what line is causing the problem.