[Resolved] mod_rewrite probs :-(

Stevil

hey all,

I've been looking up mod_rewrite to do some seo friendly URLs, I've got it working kind of the only problem being is the URL I have to enter to get there.

Currently I'm using:-

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule test/(.*)/$ /test.?

which works if I use:-
http://www.d-swares.com/test/test.php/foo/1/bar/2

I'm looking at getting it to:-
http://www.d-swares.com/test/test/foo/1/bar/2

without the .php extension in the middle.

I know its possible but as you may have guess I don't know much about the matter (that code there is from a generator). Any help people can give me on this matter would be muchly appreicated.

Stevil

Actually better yet, on my work server they are using mod_rewrite some how to do it for ALL files in that manner.

example:
test1.php
test2.php
test3.html
test4.html

test1/foo/bar.html
test2/foo/bar.html
test3/foo/bar.html
test4/foo/bar.html

all using a single mod_rewrite directory, unfortunatly I don't have access to the conf files on the server it is on (I'm working on a different server).

If anyone can show me how to do this it'd be even more appreacited.

Stevil

slaps forehead dearie me I'm stupid today

http://www.d-swares.com/test/test.php/foo/1/bar/2

that URL works regardless of mod_rewrite or not, am working on 5 hours sleep so am a bit out of it sorry people blushes

from my lookings I know as much as:-

This Makes It Directory Recursive
Options +FollowSymLinks

Turns On Mod_Rewrite
RewriteEngine on

Sets The Rule To Follow.
RewriteRule test/(.*)/$ /test.?

According ot apache documentation it is:-
RewriteRule Pattern Substitution

so I thought it would be:-
RewriteRule /test/(.*) /test.php

but, this doesn't work ethier 🙁 what is wrong with this? is it my Pattern or substitution 😕 ?

Stevil

Ok all sorted, an hour or 2 later when my second wind kicked in I figured it out :-) heres an explanation for people that are having the same problems.

I ended up having:-
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^{(.)tester/(.)$} tester.php [l]

These 2 lines:-
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

Basically turn it on an get it ready for use.

The line:-
RewriteRule ^{(.)tester/(.)$} tester.php [l]

I'll break down in parts:-

RewriteRule - This Sets A New Rule To Be Used

^{(.)tester/(.)$} - Regexp Of The Url To Redirect To File (in thise case anything which contains "tester/".

tester.php - The File To Redirect To

[l] - means you have finished an do everything

This doesn't pass the paramas on but I didn't want that (I'm working with other peopels code so little choice ethier way)

I used:-

$script = substr($SCRIPT_FILENAME, strlen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])+1);
$url = substr($REQUEST_URI, strpos($REQUEST_URI, $script)+strlen($script)-3, strlen($REQUEST_URI));
$explode_url = preg_replace('/\?.*$/', '', $url);
$params = explode('/',trim($explode_url),6);
for ($i = 0; $i < count($params); $i++){
	if (strlen($params[$i]) > 0)
		$params[$i] = eregi_replace('\.html', '', $params[$i]);
	else 
		unset($params[$i]);
}

I have limited it to 6 directories, but thats just by choice. Downside to this is the fact you don't have keys passed in so you HAVE TO know the order of which your directories will be in the URL.

I said before that it is posible to do with any file an any directory, I still think this is possible but instead of "^{(.)tester/(.)$} tester.php" you'll use variables instead of the const value of "tester". Don't think it would be to hard but no time to figure it out now.

If/When I do will post the info back again here.

thank you