.htaccess RewriteRule help

player · 10 Mar 2011 at 14:13

I'm struggling a bit with apaches rewriterule

have 3 files in a folder

/review/apple.html
/review/orange.html
/review/pear.html

I want my links from my homepage to be tidy without the file extension, ie links are:
/review/apple
/review/orange
/review/pear etc

how I use the rule so /review/apple.html points to --> /review/apple and so on?

I can do this with a forward but I dont want the file extension popping up in the address bar!

thanks

tfcrazy · 10 Mar 2011 at 17:29

A quick and simple (i think), although maybe not the best way to do it is:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^contact-us$ /contact-us/ [R]
RewriteRule ^contact-us/$ /contact.php

</IfModule>

First one redirects from /contact-us to /contact-us/
Second one in the background loads /contact.php when /contact-us/ is called.

Now with a bit of regex fiddling it could be modified easily to be more versatile.

player · 16 Mar 2011 at 21:24

thanks tfcrazy I will take a look into this tomorrow in dreamweaver and see how I get on!!

FabienO · 16 Mar 2011 at 23:47

/Hijack

localhost/27thblog/posts.php?post_id=1/lorem-ipsum2

to become

localhost/27thblog/post/1/lorem-ipsum2

Been killing me all day.

thank you

shine · 16 Mar 2011 at 23:55

FabienO said:
/Hijack

localhost/27thblog/posts.php?post_id=1/lorem-ipsum2

to become

localhost/27thblog/post/1/lorem-ipsum2

Been killing me all day.

thank you

If I've understood you right, something like should work:

RewriteRule ^posts.php?post_id=1/(.*) /27thblog/post/1/$1 [R=302]

FabienO · 17 Mar 2011 at 00:30

shine said:
If I've understood you right, something like should work:

RewriteRule ^posts.php?post_id=1/(.*) /27thblog/post/1/$1 [R=302]

I get a 404 when I try
localhost/27thblog/post/1/lorem-ipsum

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^posts.php?post_id=1/(.*) /27thblog/post/1/$1 [R=302]