some mod_rewrite questions

[krike]

I have a few questions about rewriting url

 

I have the following which works

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^tutorial/(.*+)$ view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^home(.*+)$ /index.php [L,QSA]

 

as you can see I redirect index.php to /home, but there are other pages I would like to do this (like advertise.php)

I copy pasted the code and added this at the end of the file:

RewriteRule ^advertise(.*+)$ /advertise.php [L,QSA]

 

Question 1

but for that part I'm getting a 500 internal server error but not for index.php, can I just add another rewrite under the index.php?

 

Question 2

^tutorial/(.*+)$ view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 shows /tutorial/21

but I would like to display the tutorial name instead of the id, any idea how I would do this? or is there something else I should do?

 

 

any help would be appreciated (noob here )

[wildteen88]

If you're wanting to use site.com/home instead of site.com/index.php or site.com/adverstise instead of site.com/advertise.php etc

 

Then you'd need to use only 1 single require rule

RewriteRule ^(.*+)$ /$1.php [L,QSA][L]

 

Question 2

^tutorial/(.*+)$ view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 shows /tutorial/21

but I would like to display the tutorial name instead of the id, any idea how I would do this? or is there something else I should do?

You will have to modify your script so it generates the links with the tutorial title contained within in it.

 

Example code

echo '<a href="'.$row['tutorial_id'].'-'.str_replace(' ', '_', strtolower($row['tutorial_title'])).'">'.$row['tutorial_title'].'</a>';

That code will produce a link like

site.com/123-how_to_install_php

 

Now for your rewriteRule you can use

RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)$ view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1

 

 

 

 

[krike]

oooh I see thanks will try that out tonight

[krike]

This is what I have and I get an internal server error (when removing last line I have no problems)

 

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)$ view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*+)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]

[krike]

ok, this is what I have and it "sort of" works

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)$ view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ ./profile.php?username=$1

 

when I go to http://cmstutorials.org/tutorial/2 or http://cmstutorials.org/user/krike everything displays correctly but when I add a / at the end it won't work anymore.

 

anyone know how to fix this?  please 

[roopurt18]

Add the following before your dollar sign, which means "optionally may end with a forward slash but do not capture it":

/?

[krike]

thanks, I did it but I get internal server error but I can still access the page without the /

 

this is what I have

RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ /$1.php
RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)/?$ ./view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1
RewriteRule ^submitted/([0-9]+)/?$ ./submitted_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1
RewriteRule ^add_favorite/([0-9]+)/?$ ./add_favorites.php?tutorial_id=$1
RewriteRule ^favorites/(.*)/?$ ./favorites.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)/?$ ./profile.php?username=$1
RewriteRule ^edituser/(.*)/?$ ./edit_profile.php?username=$1

[roopurt18]

The following rule will catch everything, so it should probably be last:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ /$1.php

 

I also like to append [QSA,L] to my rules (query string append, last), like so:

RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)/?$ ./view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [QSA,L]

 

Whenever I have rewrite problems there are two things I do to identify them.

 

1) I comment out all of the rewrite rules and test them one by one until I find the broken one.

 

2) If you check the mod_rewrite documentation, you can turn on rewrite logging and check your apache error log.

[krike]

bah....  :facewall: :facewall:

 

this is what I have:

 

SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

RewriteEngine on

#RewriteLog "/var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxx/httpdocs/rewrite.log"
#RewriteLogLevel 5

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)$ ./view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^submitted/([0-9]+)$ ./submitted_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^add_favorite/([0-9]+)$ ./add_favorites.php?tutorial_id=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^favorites/(.*)$ ./favorites.php?username=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^user/(.*)$ ./profile.php?username=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^edituser/(.*)$ ./edit_profile.php?username=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1.php

 

I commented the rewritelog because....... guess what??..... it's causing an internal server error  :'(

should it be on top or something? The path is correct I'm sure, or should it be a txt file?

 

 

:shrug:

 

thanks for all your help anyway

 

 

[roopurt18]

Try putting rewrite logging in the vhost configuration in httpd.conf I guess.

[krike]

can't access it, I'm on shared hosting.

 

however I thought maybe I could edit all url's ending with / and remove it

 

so if anyone goes to /contact/ it will change to /contact.

 

but no idea on how to do that...

[roopurt18]

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1.php

 

Your last rule is here is matching URLs ending in a forward slash.  It's also trying to send them to a file off of the root directory of the server since you left out the . (current directory) symbol in the /$1.php