purencool Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 hi I am have been trying to get the mod rewrite to work on my site. I have use other examples from around the web and i know that I can rewrite my url. But I am having trouble with getting mine right. Below is my current url http://www.purencool.com/index.php?mdir=5~News&page=1~News.php I want it to look like this http://www.purencool.com/News/News.php This is what I have currently with my thoughts. If I have the wrong idea please tell me=) This turns the engine on Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on This starts from the root directory RewriteBase / This regex the get vars RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} page=([a-zA-Z]+) RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mdir=([a-zA-Z]+) And this is a bad attempt at a rewrite rule. I get lost at this point! RewriteRule index.php index.php?mdir = %1 page=%1 [L] [code] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purencool Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 Hello again Ok I done some research and I know that this is close but i still can't get it to work. The get variable will not rewrite. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / rewriterule ^([a-z0-9~]+)/([a-z0-9~.]+)/?$ index.php?mdir=$1&page=$2 [NC,NE,L] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 At a glance it looks ok. So your saying if you type... http://www.purencool.com/News/News.php ...you don't see page... index.php?mdir=News&page=News.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purencool Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 thanks for the reply When some one comes to my site right now they see this index.php?mdir=News&page=News.php I want them to see this in the url http://www.purencool.com/News/News.php and from what I can work out to achieve this you use mod rewrite by placing this code in the root directory of the website in a .htaccess file. But I can't get it to work. But I have tested the mod rewrite in the sub folders and it works fine Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / rewriterule ^([a-z]+)/([a-z.]+)/?$ index.php?mdir=$1&page=$2 [NC,NE,L] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 I am well aware of both what mod_rewrite is and what you are trying to do with it. So back to my previous question. Are you saying that (obviously when you have the rewrite rule in your .htaccess and the .htaccess file in the root folder) if you type in the desired URL you don't see the page you expect? Saying it doesn't work is not exactly helpfull. Obviously it doesn't work else you wouldn't have wrote a thread in the forum in the first place. What exactly is the problem? Does it not do anything? Does it show the wrong page? Do you get a 404 page not found error? Is that the only information you have in your .htaccess file? Does it break other links in your page from working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purencool Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 Sorry I miss understood, It does nothing it will not rewrite the url This is what my .htaccess file looked like yesterday in my root folder of my web site. ErrorDocument 404 /_fpages/404.php Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / rewriterule ^([a-z]+)/([a-z.]+)/?$ index.php?mdir=$1&page=$2 [NC,NE,L] But if you go here on my site you can see mod_rewrite working fine http://www.purencool.com/_tools/htaccess_test/rewrite.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 There is nothing wrong with that rewrite code, it works perfectly. Create a new blank index.php page, place the following inside it... <?php echo '<pre>'; print_r($_GET); echo '</pre>'; ?> Then place both that index.php file and the .htaccess in your root folder and type http://www.purencool.com/john/smith into your browser. You should see on screen something along the lines of... Array ( [mdir] => john => smith ) ... thus proving you have successfully been redirected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purencool Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 I worked great. I had to type get vars in the index page you wanted me to create the array printed Array ( url =>/john/smith mdir]=> john page => smith ) So it is rewriting the url for a search engine. But it is not showing it in the browser url bar when I look around the site Is that correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 The idea is that as far as anybody outside your server is concerned (both visitors and search engine spiders) the page they are on is http://www.purencool.com/john/smith they don't need to know that the page they are actually viewing is http://www.purencool.com/index.php?mdir=john&page=smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purencool Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 If that is the case this is my .htaccess file right now ErrorDocument 404 /_fpages/404.php Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / rewriterule ^([a-z]+)/([a-z.]+)/?$ index.php?mdir=$1&page=$2 [NC,NE,L] and is this a screen shot of my browser as of this post. So what my browser bar should be displaying is http://www.purencool.com/index.php/Web_Sites/Web_Sites.php. But it is not! Is that right? [attachment deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 No, you have the concept of mod_rewrite completely and utterly backwards (which it seems is a fairly common mistake). The whole objective is to send the first link to the second link, not vice versa. Essentially you are masking the actual URL with a more readable version of it. You will need to edit your entire site so that anywhere you output a link, instead of having links of the second format, they will have links of the first format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purencool Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 I new it had to be something I am missing. What do you mean i need to edit my whole site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 If you are attempting to have your links as search engine friendly, the links on your site need to be domain.com/pretty/link not domain.com/index.php?mdir=pretty&page=link. Thats the whole point of the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purencool Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 yes I am looking for domain friendly links. the get vars are variable that point to a dir and a file. The side menu is a directory scan then a include statement places the and main content into the index file. I was always under the impression that I could take those get vars and then use mod_rewrite to change them into a url that is more pleasing to the user and search engines. Have I got this complete wrong mod_rewrite does not have this capability? and example of the structure is index.php | |_ 1~Home (dir) |_ 1~Home(file) | |_ 2~About Me(file) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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