Need Mod Rewrite help

[smartcard]

I hope somebody can give me a hand here.

I am tranforming my existing personal website, and am trying to create search-engine friendly URLs.

My original URL is

http://www.mydomain.com/visit_link.php?id=10486

My .htaccess is following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^{visit_link_(.*).html$} /visit_link.php?id=$1

</IfModule>

This is producing the URL as:

http://www.mydomain.com/visit_link_10486.html

How can I produce the following URL?

http://www.mydomain.com/10486/Go-to-3D-model-look.html

Ad you can see "Go-to-3D-model-look.html" is the name of the link

[bradgrafelman]

I don't understand what you're asking... are you trying to figure out how a link such as http://www.mydomain.com/10486/Go-to-3D-model-look.html will translate to /visit_link.php?id=10486 ?

[iskib]

Are you trying to do something like this?

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule Go-to-3D-model-look.html$  /visit_link.php?id=10486

Here is for .html any view_link.php?id=

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule visit_link-id-(.*)\.htm$  /visit_link.php?id=$1&

Or to a directory look

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule visit_link/id/(.*)/  /visit_link.php?id=$1&

[smartcard]

bradgrafelman wrote:

I don't understand what you're asking... are you trying to figure out how a link such as http://www.mydomain.com/10486/Go-to-3D-model-look.html will translate to /visit_link.php?id=10486 ?

I want http://www.mydomain.com/visit_link.php?id=10486 to be translated like http://www.mydomain.com/10486/Go-to-3D-model-look.html

"Go to 3D model look" is the name of link, this is dynamic and this name changes from links to link. Please refer to my site here http://doiop.com/tutorial.com to understand more on what I am trying to archive.

[bradgrafelman]

I'm not sure how you're expecting this transformation to be done. How does Apache know that ID #10486 translates to "Go to 3D model look" ?

It sounds like you need to grab the ID in a PHP script, determine the appropriate path, and use [man]header/man to redirect them.

[evan_k]

What you would want to do is ignore the name of the "page" in the link, and use instead the directory as the id:

# Rewrite any base directory consisting of all digits to the visit link script
RewriteRule ^([0-9])/.*$ /visit_link.php?id=$1

The above would redirect any page under a numerically named directory:

• /10486/Go-to-3D-model-look.html

• /10486/Anything-at-all.html

• /10486/

As for generating the more descriptive links like /10486/Go-to-3D-model-look.html you would have to do that through php by way of a database lookup, or by making them up by hand 🙂