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The-Marshal

.htaccess on my website didn't work i used this code on root directory


RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

but still not working please help me

AndyHowells

Can you tell us what you're trying to accomplish with .htaccess?

The-Marshal

make friendly url using htaccess

AndyHowells

Can you elaborate or provide examples so we can help you translate them to friendly URL's better.

Additionally, does your server definitely support rewriting?

The-Marshal

yes they support rewriting

www.mydomain.com/index.php?page=1

The-Marshal

by the way i put my htacces inside public_html directory next to my index page

thank you andy !

polson1000

Make sure that when you have edited your .htaccess file Notepad or what other editing program has not given it a .txt file extension.

The-Marshal

no it's .htaccess next to index page

The-Marshal

look to this image where is .htaccess file
here...

The-Marshal

Is there any help please !

karlpcrowley

Howdy,

I've never been one to get my head around regular expression the first time around
Check this out, seems to cover everything needed
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html

Is there any errors coming up on your site when you try to access it?

The-Marshal

thank you karlpcrowley

no errors coming up,and i checked the website but how i know that .htaccess work fine !

karlpcrowley

in your index.php add this to the top

echo $_GET['page'];

It should echo out any variables passed to the page if it's working

The-Marshal

yes it's works fine and i got the value of

$_GET['page']

but url never change to static...

karlpcrowley

what did you type into the address bar?

The-Marshal

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?page=1

TT_Mark

You're typing the wrong thing into your address bar....

You should be typing the URL you want to rewrite to http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?page=1 not the resulting URL because it's a one-way rewrite process

e.g. load up

http://www.mydomain.com/test/mypage.html

then echo out the $_GET['page'] and you should see 'test/mypage' if it is working correctly

The-Marshal

i'm writing inside index page this code to make the url


<li><a href="index.php?page=<?php  echo urlencode($pageid);?>"><?php echo $pageName; ?></a></li>

then i get the value by this code


$idRequest    = $_REQUEST['page'];

then i use it in SQL syntax

and .htaccess placed next to index page in the root directory of my website and has this code to make easier to read


RewriteEngine On
CheckSpelling On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

so please where is the in correct in my whole code , what should i change !
i'm just a beginer in htaccess

TT_Mark

Ah, you seem to be quite a way off what you want to achieve. At the moment the .htaccess rewrite does nothing because you're not using the URLs properly.

Firstly your link should be a link to the 'Friendly' URL. So change:


<li><a href="index.php?page=<?php  echo urlencode($pageid);?>"><?php echo $pageName; ?></a></li>

to

<li><a href="test/mypage.html"><?php echo $pageName; ?></a></li>

This, based on your rule, should give you something like:


$idRequest    = $_REQUEST['page']; // Filter your string, otherwise you'll end up with no database

echo $idRequest; // This will output 'test/mypage'

On our sites we save our page url against the page in the database, so at this point my query would be something like


SELECT * FROM Menu WHERE PageURL LIKE 'test/mypage' LIMIT 1

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