Multiple Mod Rewrite Rules

[tobbesanda]

Hi the and greetings from Sweden!

I hope I post in the right forum section but couldn't find another place to fit my question.

I have a problem when I want to do two mod rewrite rules in my .htaccess and I can't figure it out.

The first one is simple:

maydomain.com/index.php?p=hello -> maydomain.com/hello

And the other one little trickier:

maydomain.com/pages?path=about -> maydomain.com/pages/about

I've tried several of things but I can only get my first rule to work. I probable screwed things up when I tried to use two rules I guess.

I've tried with stuff like these:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on 
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
  RewriteRule pages/^(.*)$ pages?path=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Anybody have a piece of Rewrite code to show me?

Thanks / Tobias

[bpat1434]

The issue is in the flags you have at the end of your first rewrite rule. The "L" flag means "Last" meaning that once this flag is hit, no more rewrite rules are to be processed. So it's hitting your first rule and stopping, instead of falling through to the next one. Try removing the "L" from the first set of flags and see if that works 😉

[jazz_snob]

I'm a little out of practice here, but I've used mod_rewrite extensively. Bpat is right about the L. ALso, I believe the first rewrite will always execute since you are saying "match any pattern to this URL". The first pattern matching test should be for URLs that contain pages directory in the request. If that doesn't match it should fall thru to the

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]

I learned long ago to simply do

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]

then use PHP to process the requests, rather than try and juggle a bunch of pattern matching rules. Its way easier, at least for me.

[tobbesanda]

Hi there again and thancks for your answeers.

I've tried this also:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on 
  # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?page=x'.
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^pages/([^/]*)$ /pages?path=$1
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

I'm really lost here. This should work but it doesn't.. Really weired.

jazz_snob: I'm not following? 🙂

[jazz_snob]

tobbesanda;10916969 wrote:

Hi there again and thancks for your answeers.

I've tried this also:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on 
  # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?page=x'.
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^pages/([^/]*)$ /pages?path=$1
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Try this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule pages/([^/]*)$ pages/index.php?path=$1 [L,QSA]

  # notice how this last RewriteRule sends any URL to index.php...it does
  # so you have to "filter out" the ones you don't want going there
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pages
  RewriteRule (.*)$ index.php?p=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

You can imagine how this quickly turns into a maintenance nightmare. Thats why I do what drupal does and redirect everything to index.php and figure out in php code how to handle each request.

[tobbesanda]

Like Drupal, ok. Worth a look perhaps.

I'm getting crazy with this problem and it seems that no one in any Swedish forums can't figure this out either...

I'm very thankful for your help though.

Perhaps I can create a phpfunction then somehow? or is there any classes available that you know of?

I'm just finished my first (small)CMS for my own purpose and this is the only thing that's missing.. grr...

/ Tobias