another .htaccess question

iceomnia

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.*)\.html$ /list.php?catId=$1
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.*)\.html$ /item.php?itemId=$1
RewriteRule ^[page]_(.*)\.html$ /index.php?pageId=$1

I need to write something that will send to a different page when the number of digits in "(.*)" is different, so something like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.*){4,4}\.html$ /list.php?catId=$1
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.*){6,6}\.html$ /item.php?itemId=$1
RewriteRule ^[page]_(.*)\.html$ /index.php?pageId=$1

...but this doesn't work, can anyone help?

Horizon88

I don't know that it's the reason, but if it's ONLY four or ONLY six, you don't need the {#,#}, you can just do {#} for exactly that amount. Do any of those three rules work?

iceomnia

Yeah, tried that. Still doesn't work LOL. Any other ideas?

Horizon88

"hire_" could be invalid, you might want to try escaping those characters, but I don't know regular expressions well enough to be sure. Have to wait for one of the other guys to fill us in, I guess. 😃

iceomnia

Hi everyone,

I have been playing with this problem for about 3 days now...

Could someone, anyone who is good a regexp help... please?

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10352349

sfullman

I have a real important question and someone asks a stupid question (yes there are stupid questions 🙂 and then there's a "reply" to my post and so nobody reads it - we've all been through that.
[ not implying any question here is stupid 🙂 ]
However since this is already in discussion, I looked at your post and see that you said it "doesn't" work. Could you be specific as to what "doesn't work" means? Are they all going to one page regardless? Which page of the two? That would help us (you) troubleshoot.

ACTUALLY I THINK I KNOW - your problem is the * inside - see if this works:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.{4})\.html$ /list.php?catId=$1
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.{6})\.html$ /item.php?itemId=$1
RewriteRule ^[page]_(.*)\.html$ /index.php?pageId=$1

or if you know the characters:

RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_([-a-z0-9]{4})\.html$ /list.php?catId=$1

that might just do it

NogDog

iceomnia wrote:
Hi everyone,

I have been playing with this problem for about 3 days now...

Could someone, anyone who is good a regexp help... please?

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10352349

Please do not open up a new thread in order to bump another; threads merged.

iceomnia

Please do not open up a new thread in order to bump another; threads merged.

My appologies.

iceomnia

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.{4})\.html$ /list.php?catId=$1
RewriteRule ^[a-z_]+hire_(.{6})\.html$ /item.php?itemId=$1
RewriteRule ^[page]_(.*)\.html$ /index.php?pageId=$1

OK, so this works for this:

dj_equipment_hire_4001.html

and this:

medium_strobe_light_hire_100063.html

but not for this:

numark_cd_mix_2_twin_dj_cd___mixer_all_in_one_hire_100009.html

Might it have something to do with the amount of "_" underscores I have in the file name?