Rewriting Urls With $_Get Variables

[real_illusions]

Hi, If I have a page URL like this: example.com/page.php?variable=somethingexample.com/page.php?variable=something-goes-here Then how do I get it to show example.com/somethingorexample.com/something-goes-here via .htaccess? And would it still work? As in, would the browser pickup the variable and display the right content? Or is there a better way of doing this? Thanks.

[Ingolme]

Using the [QSA] modifier, you can include the query string in your rewrite rules.Use the [R] rule to redirect. I haven't checked to make sure I have the syntax right, but something like this should work

RewriteRule ^page.php?page=(.*)$ /$1 [QSA,R=301]

You'll also need another rewrite rule that turns the other URL back into the query string you wanted.

[real_illusions]

Cant make it do what I want it to. Found a few online generators but none seem to either do the trick I want or the code they product doesn't work. It doesn't produce a 500 error, it just produces a 404 error on the friendly url. Stuff like:RewriteRule /(.*) /page.php?page=$1 [PT] Even hard coding it this way doesnt work: RewriteRule ^/Something$ page.php?variable=Something And yes Rewrite Engine is on.

[real_illusions]

Anyone have any ideas or clues?

[real_illusions]

I have this: RewriteRule ^/([A-Z]+)/?$ location.php?area=$1 [NC,L] Which doesn't create a 500 server error, but I still 404's when trying to access /areagoeshere for example. The underlying url is location.php?area=areagoeshere Why is it doing this?

[Ingolme]

Remember that it's case sensitive. You need to think of lowercase and uppercase characters: ^/([a-zA-Z]+)/?$

[real_illusions]

Oh yes, forgot about that. But still nothing when adding in the a-z part. Have tried removing the '+' bit but again, 404 error. Same with removing the /?, or even just ? or /, all 404 errors.

[Ingolme]

That's very strange. Not even the simplest rule is working?

[real_illusions]

Other rules are working on the server (like non-www to www). Have taken off any [L]'s on other rules as that indicates its the last rule I believe, and still no joy.

[Ingolme]

What does your entire htaccess file look like?

[real_illusions]

Have put in example.co.uk instead of the actual URL, and replaced a couple of page file names, and xx'd out the IP address that was causing problems.

<Files .htaccess>order allow,denydeny from all</Files>  ErrorDocument 400 /error400.phpErrorDocument 401 /error401.phpErrorDocument 403 /error403.phpErrorDocument 404 /error404.phpErrorDocument 500 /error500.php DirectoryIndex index.php  RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example.co.uk/.*$ [NC]RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.example.co.uk/dontsteal.gif [R] redirect 301 /oldpageone.php http://www.example.co.uk/newpageone.phpredirect 301 /oldpagetwo.php http://www.example.co.uk/newpagetwo.phpredirect 301 /oldpagethree http://www.example.com/newpagethree.php  order allow,denydeny from xx.xx.xx.xxallow from allRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.co.ukRewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301]  RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z]+)/?$ location.php?area=$1 [NC,L]

[Ingolme]

I don't see anything wrong. Maybe the slash is the problem.Try this:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/?$ location.php?area=$1 [NC,L]

[real_illusions]

Woo, finally, it works! It was the slash that was the problem. Thanks