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  • #148567
    XaviJr
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    I want to redirect http://www.something.com/helloworld.pdf to http://www.something.com/index.php?file=helloworld.pdf and then echoing the name of the file in index.php.

    So far I got this code:
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/?.(?i:jpg|gif|png|pdf|zip|rar|doc|docx|mov|ai|psd|swf|key)$ index.php?file=$1 [L]

    They only thing it’s missing is the extension of the file on the echo. What am I doing wrong?

    #148596
    __
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    They only thing it’s missing is the extension of the file on the echo. What am I doing wrong?

    You only passed the first subpattern ($1) to your rewritten url. The file extension is inside $2.

    Also note that ([^/.]+)/?.<– this dot matches “any character,” and so might cause patterns to match/not match that you might not otherwise expect. You can do \. instead to make it a literal “dot.”

    #148599
    XaviJr
    Participant

    So I changed to:

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ([^/.]+)/?.(?i:jpg|gif|png|pdf|zip|rar|doc|docx|mov|ai|psd|swf|key)$ index.php?file=$1.$2 [L]

    And it’s printing [filename]. what means that the extension is not being saved in $2.

    Any idea?

    #148608
    __
    Participant

    What’s the (?i: part supposed to do? I’ve never seen that. It seems that you really only need an optional group (i.e., (this|that|other)) for this task…? That ? might be causing the pattern to be non-capturing.

    #148609
    XaviJr
    Participant

    Nevermind. I was able to do what I wanted to:

    RewriteEngine on

    images

    RewriteRule ^(.+).jpg$ index.php?file=$1.jpg [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+).gif$ index.php?file=$1.gif [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+).png$ index.php?file=$1.png [L]

    docs

    RewriteRule ^(.+).pdf$ index.php?file=$1.pdf [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.+).doc$ index.php?file=$1.doc [L]

    I can add only the files I want to behave like this. :)

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