Apache Mod Rewrite

fluiduk · 21 Aug 2006 at 18:07

Hi All

Working on a new site at the moment and I want to use mod rewrite to turn horrible URLS like this www.domain-name.com/show_news_article.php?id=1 into
www.domain-name.com/news/1.

I know mod rewrite can do that, what happens though if someone requests www.domain-name.com/news/1 directly, ie through a search engine, will it work?

Im not too sure how it all works and would appreciate some advice

Thanks in advance
Aaron

fluiduk · 21 Aug 2006 at 18:52

Cool. Will give that go now. Thanks

Aaron

fluiduk · 21 Aug 2006 at 18:54

Hmm that has given me a rather tasty internal server error lol

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{1,}/?$ /show_news_article.php?id=$1

fluiduk · 21 Aug 2006 at 19:03

oh right lol

Having a small problem because I am working on my test server, so the url is http://www.fluiduk.co.uk/~dimensio/news/1

So its trying to access show_news_article.php at www.fluiduk.co.uk, not www.fluiduk.co.uk/~dimensio

Would whacking it on a sub domain help, as I dont want to have to rewrite all the rules when I stick on the live server

Aaron
EDIT - DIDNT WORK. As I cant redirect the subdomain totally, its just redirect to fluiduk.co.uk/~dimensio

fluiduk · 21 Aug 2006 at 19:16

so like this

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
ReWrite Base /
RewriteRule news/([0-9]{1,})/?$ /show_news_article.php?id=$1

Thanks

fluiduk · 21 Aug 2006 at 22:49

Ok guys that all went over my head. Here is another challenge for you.

I have another dynamic page that uses the following url view_facilities.php?id=gym&photoid=1

The reason I am using 2 variables is because I want the word gym to be in the url, and the photo ID is so the page can call the relevant photos the user has uploaded for that page.

I would like the url to look like www.mydomain.com/facilities/gym

Is that possible, given that there is another variable in the URL?

Much Appreciated
Aaron

fluiduk · 21 Aug 2006 at 23:59

Nice one, got all that working. Thanks

Is it worth while extending this practice to every page, how would I rewrite say careers.php to mydomain.com/careers and is it worth it?

Thanks
Aaron

fluiduk · 22 Aug 2006 at 00:11

That was my thinking

Thanks for all the help guys, im off to bed lol

I will no doubt be back to pester you all tommorrow

Aaron

fluiduk · 23 Aug 2006 at 12:46

Quick question with this

Is there a way to do this rewrite that doesnt involve having to add ../ to all images, css, includes etc.

Perhaps its good practice to do this ../ anyway?

fluiduk · 23 Aug 2006 at 13:08

Cool, so just set all the image urls etc to start with / should do the trick.

Does this apply to page links?

Thanks