mydomain.com/site as a variable?

[Mutley]

I've done a nice bit of code for a gallery, each gallery section is divided like this:

gallery.php?id=1
gallery.php?id=2
gallery.php?id=3

etc.

Can I make it so if you put in www.mydomain.com/site1
... it goes to gallery.php?id=2 and again for .com/site2 goes to gallery.php?id=2 etc.

Is this possible, if so how?

[steveclondon]

yes it is. If you want to do it exactly as you have there you would do it by using mod_rewite. First you have to make sure that you have access to the .htaccess file on your server

[Mutley]

Any examples? I have htaccess, not sure how to use it though.

[wildteen88]

Add the following to your htaccess file:
[code]RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^site([0-9]+)$ gallery.php?id=$1[/code]

If you type in site1 it'll called gallery.php with the url parameter id=1
if site99 then it'll call gallery.php with the url parameter id=99

[Mutley]

Thanks, so if I wanted sections called "outside" and "hobbies" instead of "site1" and "site 2", what would I put?

Is there a way so when you add new sections you don't have to keep editing the htaccess?

[wildteen88]

Rather than send a numerical id to gallery.php you'll want to send a string instead. So you might want to do something like this, if you want to use outside, hobbies rather than site1, site2 or sitex (x being a number):
[code]RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)$ gallery.php?page=$1[/code]
This time when you do something like this:
mysite.com/outside it'll call gallery.php with the url parameter id=outside

Also with that you dont have to keep editing the htaccess file. However you may need to chnage the code in gallery.php though now that you are sending a string rather than a number in the id variable.

[Mutley]

Can I put .htaccess in a subdirectory? If my site is there? Or does it have to be in root folder?

[wildteen88]

htaccess folder can be placed anywhere. So you can place it in the subdirecotry if you want. However keep in mind what ever setting/configuration you have in the htaccess file will work when you go to the subfolder you put the htaccess file in.

[Mutley]

Thanks, another question.

So now I have this:
mysite.com/section

What if I have another subdirectory? so ?id=1&sub=3 or whatever, can I do this:
mysite.com/section/sub

Thanks alot Wild teen, very helpful. :)

[wildteen88]

Yeah. You just need to add a newr rewrite rule after your other one for that:
[code]RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/{[0-9+])$ gallery.php?id=$1&sub=$2[/code]

So your htaccess file should like this:
[code]RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)$ gallery.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/{[0-9+])$ gallery.php?id=$1&sub=$2 [L][/code]

[Mutley]

It's not seeming to work the last part.

If I do:
mysite.com/test
...it works fine, however if I do:
mysite.com/test/1
...it does a 404 Not found?

[oldmanice]

Try mysite.com/test1

[Mutley]

Nope, that doesn't work, it just thinks it's called "nick1".

[wildteen88]

I did a typo, I typed { instead of (. So use this as the last rewrite rule:
[code]RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/([0-9+])$ gallery.php?id=$1&sub=$2 [L][/code]

[shawn2page]

This code has been helpful for me but I am having a problem.  I have set the code up as follows:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)$ profile.php?ID=$1

So is they type www.mysite.com/johndoe it will take them to johndoe's page on our site.  But the problem I have is if a member signs up with member name mark2000 the code will not work.  How can i set it up to work with numbers?

[FuzzyLogik]

[quote author=shawn2page link=topic=109959.msg454799#msg454799 date=1161326102]
This code has been helpful for me but I am having a problem.  I have set the code up as follows:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)$ profile.php?ID=$1

So is they type www.mysite.com/johndoe it will take them to johndoe's page on our site.  But the problem I have is if a member signs up with member name mark2000 the code will not work.  How can i set it up to work with numbers?
[/quote]

Seconded.  How would I change the expression to allow number as well (in any order)

[Mutley]

[quote author=wildteen88 link=topic=109959.msg444681#msg444681 date=1159710312]
I did a typo, I typed { instead of (. So use this as the last rewrite rule:
[code]RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/([0-9+])$ gallery.php?id=$1&sub=$2 [L][/code]
[/quote]

How would you do it with underscores? Such as:

mysite.com/this_is_my_page

[Mad.Man]

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z]+)/([0-9+])$ gallery.php?id=$1&sub=$2 [L] this_is_my_page