[SOLVED] A little help needed

[phpknight]

I am new to mod_rewrite.  Because of cPanel overwriting the httpd.conf file, I have to use .htaccess.  It just seems like the rules do not work for me as planned.  If somebody can help me figure these first few out, I will probably be able to start making progress. 

 

Two examples

Example 1

  This is a simple version of what I ultimately need to do, but I do not need you to solve it.  I just need help getting started.

 

  Rule: (.*) getshop.php?shop=$1

  What I expect: I think it should work like this: somebody goes to www.myshop.com/bobstore -- it redirects to www.myshop.com/getshop.php?    shop=bobstore.  So, if I var_dump the $_GET, it should be shop=bobstore.

  What it does:  $_GET dumps shop=getshop.php no matter what goes in place of bobstore.  I tried putting NS and some other rules, but nothing helps.  It seems to give me the value AFTER the redirect, not before. 

 

Example 2

  Rule: [:alnum:]* getshop.php 

  What I expect: www.myshop.com/sldk23949  redirects to getshop.php

  What it does: redirects even www.myshop.com/#($(/1233/*@#*KKdl23 to getshop.php

 

I have tried to use ^ and other things, but nothing behaves as I thought it would.  Therefore, if somebody can start me off or even write a simple rule and rewrite that I could try (such as redirecting something with three digits to a certain page), that would be great.

[hackerkts]

I'm not sure what rule you're going to write, so I will just give an example how to use it with $_GET, turning a dynamic url to a static url.

 

Example of dynamic url:

http://domain.tld/news.php?articleid=155644

Example of static url:

http://domain.tld/article/155644

 

The rule will look like this,

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^article/([0-9]+)$ news.php?article=$1

 

^ - start of the url

([0-9]+) - the regex, combination of number from 0 to 9

$ - end of the url

$1 - just simple means the value from the regex

 

Hope this helps.

[phpknight]

Okay, I will try that.  Can you do that [:alnum:]{4,6} or something?  Once I put [:alpha:] or something like that, it stops working.  I am thinking I have the syntax wrong.

[hackerkts]

([[:alnum:]]{4,6}+)

Hope this helps.

 

http://us2.php.net/regex is useful. 

[phpknight]

Thanks.  It appears because of my version of Apache that I cannot use stuff like [:alnum:].  It just took the whole day to figure that out, lol.