Been playing around with htaccess for a while but I find it a bit of head melter most of the time.
Currently I have a site with a few normal files such as index.php in the root folder. I also have a simple blog and each post is simple saved as a separate page at the moment in the form of article-name.php. My current htaccess file cleans the URLs to remove the .php extension etc.
I’m attempting to move away from separate pages for each post to a single article.php file that will load the appropriate file directly out of a database I’ve set up to contain the posts.
So the actual link is now article.php?title=article-name and obviously I’d prefer to tidy it to be simply example.com/article-name as it is now. Any ideas how to achieve this?
Current htaccess looks like this:
AddType text/x-component .htc
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# remove .php; use THE_REQUEST to prevent infinite loops
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET (.*).php HTTP
RewriteRule (.*).php$ $1 [R=301]
# remove index
RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]
# remove slash if not directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]
# add .php to access file, but don’t redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]
I’ve seen the following code given as an example of how to make it work and it does seem to do but with side effects
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ article.php?title=$1 [NC,L]
The issue is of course that it tries to rewrite index.php. Also if you navigate to example.com/folder it’ll mess around with that too.
Any help appreciated
