url rewriting help

[thara]

everyone..

 

I need to rewrite this URL

 

http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/tutors/index.php?tutorCode=1255&tutorName=Kasun%20Perera&city=Bandarawela

 

like this

 

http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/tutors/1255/Kasun+Perera.html

 

 

can anybody help me to do this using Apache’s mod_rewrite feature.

 

any comments are greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[thara]

this is my original URL

 

http://localhost/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/index.php?tutorCode=1255&tutorName=Jhon Amarathunga&city=Perth

 

I need to rewrite it like this

 

http://localhost/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/1255/Perth/Jhon Amarathunga.html

 

here tutor_insitute, profiles and tutors are sub directories in my root directory. index.php page exist in tutors directory and also my htaccess file placed there.

 

I did in my htaccess file like this

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z_]+)/([A-Za-z_]+)$ index.php?tutorCode=$1&tutorName=$2&city=$3 [NC]

 

but it is not working.. anybody tell me where I have gone wrong?

 

Thank you.

[requinix]

You're too restrictive with the name. IMO allow pretty much everything and let your code find out if the name is correct or not.

[thara]

Your answer is completely not clear for me. No idea about IMO.. Can you elaborate this more, actually It will help me to clear this problem...

 

Thank you. 

[requinix]

[A-Za-z_]+

You require that the name have only letters and underscores. That isn't what you want. Change it so that it allows what you want it to allow.

[Jessica]

No idea about IMO

For future reference, that means In My Opinion. (IMHO = same with HONEST).

 

[thara]

For future reference, that means In My Opinion. (IMHO = same with HONEST).

Thanks for it..

 

[A-Za-z_]+

 

I change it like this

 

[A-Za-z_-+]+

 

But still my browser URL is same. it is not changing as I expect.

[Jessica]

Wait, I think you have this backwards.

 

The purpose of modrewrite it to accept a URL like

http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/tutors/1255/Kasun+Perera

 

and translate it to

http://localhost/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/index.php?tutorCode=1255&tutorName=Jhon Amarathunga&city=Perth

 

So that index.php gets run.

 

 

It does not change the URL in your existing link attributes.

[thara]

Can I rewrite URL in localhost?  for 3 days  I am trying  to rewrite my URL in localhost.. still I cant get it works..

 

any comments are greatly appreciated.

 

Thank You.