[SOLVED] Reducing approx. 30 directories to 1 file

[Helmet]

Hi,

 

I've been looking at how I can redirect a bunch of variable directories but I'm only finding examples where the directories being redirected are hard-coded. What I want to do is 301 redirect a whole bunch of these:

 

1) http://example.com/foo/file.php?id=bar

 

To this

 

2) http://example.com/foo/file/bar/

 

1 is my current real directory structure, which I'm already successfully mod_rewrite'ing to 2, which  hits my new, simplified file structure:

 

3) http://example.com/file.php?var=foo&id=bar

 

RewriteRule (.*)/file/(.*)/ file.php?var=$1&id=$2

 

This allows me to not have to maintain a ton of virtually identical directories.

 

I'm just looking for a way to redirect any traffic I get to the old structure (1), where I don't know which directory "foo" might be, to it's corresponding path 2.

 

...reading this post I suspect I may have explained it really unclearly

[corbin]

Wait....  I'm confused.  You want to rewrite 1 to 2?  Or you want to rewrite 2 to three?

[Helmet]

Basically if I get traffic to the old structure:

 

http://example.com/foo/file.php?id=bar

 

I want to 301 redirect it using htaccess to

 

http://example.com/foo/file/bar/

 

...heh I just realized that I might be in the wrong forum. I posted here because this is going to work in concert with my rewrite:

 

RewriteRule (.*)/file/(.*)/ file.php?var=$1&id=$2

 

Which allows me to emulate my old directory structure with one file.

 

 

[corbin]

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*?).php\?id=([^&]+) /$1/$2/$3/ [L]

 

 

Is all I can think of, and you will want to put it before the other rewrite (or it will make a loop).

[Helmet]

Thanks very much for your help on this, Corbin...

 

I tried that rule, but it looks like you have it where the name of the php file is variable, but that's not the case. I get a 404 when i try the rule you suggested and hit /foo/file.php?id=bar

 

The only file that exists is  /file.php , but that doesn't change names. I used to have a ton of directories each with a file.php within it:

 

/foo/file.php

 

Now I want a) a string like /file.php?directory=foo&id=bar to look like /foo/file/bar/ and b) make sure that any requests for /foo/file.php?id=bar is redirected to the new fake /foo/file/bar/

 

Can this be done with rewrite alone? i was assuming I had to do a rewrite for a, and a redirect for b.

 

 

[corbin]

Oh, sorry it can't be done with a rewrite, but the rewrite can turn into a redirect.  Don't know why I didn't put that in there earlier.

 

 

Try:

 

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/file\.php\?id=([^&]+) /$1/$2/$3/ [L,R=301]

[Helmet]

Well, that was still getting me a 404, but it pointed me in the right direction... I did a little more research and now I'm so close I can taste it except that this is redirecting to

 

/directory/file/3451/?id=3451

 

what I want is just /directory/file/3451/

 

If I can just get rid of the querystring, I'm set!

 

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]*)$

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/file\.php$ http://example.com/$1/file/%1/ [R=302,L]

 

[Helmet]

Figured it out, just needed a question mark at the end of the redirect url to nuke the query string.

 

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]*)$

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/file\.php$ http://example.com/$1/file/%1/? [R=302,L]

 

Thanks for you help!

[corbin]

You figured it out but no problem ;p.