first time mod_rewrite help

[kaiman]

I am trying to clean URLs in my custom made blog using mode_rewrite but am a little confused by how to use the regular expressions.

 

I am trying to convert all pages with:

 

http://www.domain.com/blog/article/?id=1

 

Which is actually:

 

http://www.domain.com/blog/article/index.php?id=1 (I just shortened the URL like the one above in my link)

 

To:

 

http://www.domain.com/blog/article/id/1/

 

How would I go about doing this? I am new to mod_rewrite and regular expressions so you'll have to forgive me.

 

So far I have the following:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)/?$ ?id=$1 [NC,L] 

 

Is this correct?

 

Thanks for any help or suggestions,

 

kaiman

[kaiman]

Okay so I've changed all my links from:

 

http://www.domain.com/blog/article/?id=$id

 

To:

 

http://www.domain.com/blog/article/index.php?id=$id

 

And think I need to use the following mod_rewrite but I'm unsure. Can someone take a look at this and tell me whether it looks correct?

 

RewriteRule ^/id/([0-9]+)/?$ ?id=$1 [NC,L]

 

Should output this address:

 

http://mydomain.com/blog/article/id/1/ (for example)

 

Also, I have a sql query using $_GET through the url to display the posts according to id. What do I need to change to get it to work with this rewrite?

 

Here is the code:

 

// get url variables
$post_id = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']);

 

Any help is appreciated. Please let me know if I'm not being clear.

 

Thanks,

 

kaiman

[requinix]

You got your URL backwards.

 

Your code should generate URLs like

/blog/article/id/1

You then configure your .htaccess to rewrite from /blog/article/id/# to /blog/article/index.php?id=#.

 

Any reason you want the /id/ in the address? You don't need it, you know...

[kaiman]

@ requinix

 

Not sure I am following you here. If I have a URL that currently looks like this:

 

http://www.domain.com/blog/article/index.php?id=$id

 

And want to change it to this:

 

http://www.domain.com/blog/article/id/{id number here}/

 

Wouldn't I use something like this to do it and stick the .htaccess file in the /article/ directory? Or do I have it backwards? Can you provide an example?

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^id/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [NC,L] 

 

Thanks,

 

kaiman

[strago]

Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^blog/article/id/([^.]+)/$ blog/article/index.php?id=$1 [L]

 

For an even shorter URL...

 

RewriteRule ^article/([^.]+)/$ blog/article/index.php?id=$1 [L]

 

domain.com/article/#/