Small .htaccess Mod Rewrite Help

[.Darkman]

Hello Everybody,

 

I'm using MediaWiki and using .htaccess to make URLs better.

 

Using this code :

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

This redirects http://mysite.com/Page to http://mysite.com/index.php?title=Page

 

I want to achieve this for subpages also.

(i.e) I want to redirect http://mysite.com/Page/Sub to http://mysite.com/index.php?title=Page/Sub

 

How do i do this ? I tried few codes. But, they didn't work. Please help me.

 

 

Thanks,

[.Darkman]

Anyone ??

[wildteen88]

Try:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

 

[.Darkman]

I added just the third line and it worked.

What are the other two lines for ? I mean, what are these for ?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

[wildteen88]

They are conditions, they basically check if the requested filename is not an existing file/directory. If it is then the rewrite rules that follow will be ignored.

 

if you didn't add those lines in then Apache will always rewrite every url to index.php?title=request/file/path/here

 

You don't have to have those lines if you don't want them. But I have found they can be useful.