mod_rewrite fun

[fooman]

I am having a bit of trouble with some mod_rewriting.
I have a url such as:
http://www.example.com/about-us/deeper-link

I’d like to convert this on the server to:
http://www.example.com/about-us?slug=deeper-link

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

RewriteRule ^/index.php$ - [L]



RewriteRule ^about-us/([^/.]+)/?$ about-us?slug=$1 [L]

Now the issue is that unless I create a directory called “about-us”, I get a 500 error.
I’d like to just have a page named about-us, not another directory.
So I make a directory called “about-us”, add an index file in there as the page, and add a trailing slash to the rule.

After doing that, it works.

RewriteRule ^about-us/([^/.]+)/?$ about-us/?slug=$1 [L]

So I guess my question is, how do I get this to work as expected without a directory… just rewrite it to a simple file…?

[lhoezee]

You are really close..

Try this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

RewriteRule ^/index.php$ - [L]



RewriteRule ^about-us/([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?slug=$1 [L]



# added this line just in case someone goes to about-us without anything after it.. so you do not get a 404

RewriteRule ^about-us/?$ index.php?slug=$1 [L]

[lhoezee]

Sorry for the delay, I thought I would have received an email from your response..

Usually, most of the sites I do run off of just the index file and I use mod rewrite to dynamically include other files or “content” based on the URL which then I’ll have a controller which handles template calls on the fly etc.

If I’m understanding correctly, does this work for you?

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f



# Note: This will add a .php to the end of the slug value

# example:

# /about-us/test will actually be: /about-us?slug=test.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

RewriteRule ^/index.php$ - [L]



RewriteRule ^about-us/([^/]+) about-us.php?slug=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^about-us about-us.php [NC,L]

That works on my side. I created an about-us.php file in my root directory and went to /about-us/test which then created /about-us?slug=test.php

I wasn’t sure if you wanted the .php appended at the end so I added a note to one of the Rules above.

Luke

[lhoezee]

I found where I can get email notifications :)

[lhoezee]

Ok, apparently even though I checked the box for emails, I didn’t get the notification of your comment and I checked in spam, strange.

Give this a try:

**Note: ** This assumes the first ([^/]+) is an actual static file. so for example:

/about-us/test will actually be:
about-us.php?slug=test

and

/contact-us/test2 will actually be:
contact-us.php?slug=test2

If the file does not exists a 404 will be generated.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f



# Note: This will add a .php to the end of the slug value

# example:

# /about-us/test will actually be: /about-us?slug=test.php

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

RewriteRule ^/index.php$ - [L]



RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+) $1.php?slug=$2 [QSA,L]

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