[RESOLVED] Mod_rewrite

[chrisguk]

Im having a major problem getting my MOD_rewrite script to work. Note all naming of links are hyperthetical for the purpose of the question:

I have and index.php page in the root folder setup like the following:

<?php



$page = isset($_GET['p']) ? $_GET['p'] : 'main';



switch($page) {

case 'contact': $title = 'title for contact'; $stylesheet = 'style.css'; break;
    case 'main': $title = 'title for main'; $stylesheet = 'style.css'; break;

    default: $page = 'main';  $title = 'title for main'; $stylesheet = 'style.css'; break;

}



include('include/header.php');

include('include/leftnav.php');

include('host/'.$page.'.php');

include('include/rightnav.php');

include('include/footer.php'); 





?>

Now all my content is in the folder "Host" so when I call the page the url is like so:

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?p=about

I am trying to write a mod_rewrite to make this into a friendly url .....

Are there any apache guru's out there that could assist with this one for me...

Feel free to add me to MSN as well..............😃

[bradgrafelman]

Well.. what kind of a "friendly" URL are you after? Here's a simple example:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]+)/? index.php?p=$1

[chrisguk]

bradgrafelman;10938637 wrote:

Well.. what kind of a "friendly" URL are you after? Here's a simple example:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]+)/? index.php?p=$1

This is my problem I put that into my .htaccess file and upload it but nothing changes no rewrite or anything.

Am I supposed to change anything for example the way I select the links ect...

Plus how is that example you made supposed to output. I have read and read the php mod_rewrite library and still dont really get it....

[Kudose]

Basically you create a URL like website.com/page/abc

With the .htaccess you have, Apache will "automagically" convert website.com/page/abc to website.com/index.php?p=abc when someone visits that URL

In your script you would use $_GET['p'] to get abc

Hope that helps.

[chrisguk]

So in my index.php it has a line of code as follows:

$page = isset($GET['p']) ? $GET['p'] : 'main';

Is that what you mean?

Or do you mean I have to put something else in the .htaccess file?

[chrisguk]

ok I believe its working now,

Just one last thing... on my website do I have to adjust my <a href= code to read for example <a href="<?php echo $url ?>/page/abc">Link</a> instead of <a href="<?php echo $url ?>/index.php?p=abc">

[Kudose]

It will work either way, but you should use the former to get the URLs you want.

[chrisguk]

How odd it cant be working then, when I click on the link it still defaults to index.php?p=abc instead of the re-written version but if I type in the bar mydomain.com/page/abc it works fine suggesting it has re-written.

[Kudose]

Is your link to mydomain.com/page/abc?

Using mydomain.com/index.php?p=abc in the A tag will not be converted to mydomain.com/page/abc

[chrisguk]

Kudose;10938702 wrote:

Is your link to mydomain.com/page/abc?

Using mydomain.com/index.php?p=abc in the A tag will not be converted to mydomain.com/page/abc

Yes thats what I have been getting at, let me put this in a different way:

LINKS PAGE A:
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>/page/abc">Page 1</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>/page/def">Page 2</a></li>
</ul>

or

LINKS PAGE B:
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>/index.php?p=page1">Page 1</a></li>
<li><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>/index.php?p=page2</a></li>
</ul>

So which one would be the correct way to code A or B?

[jay6390]

Method A is the way you should do it. You should also have [L] after your rewrite rule