plz help - htaccess

[jrahma]

Hi,

can anyone help on how to do this in htaccess please..

I want to make every:

www.mydomain.com/news.php?id=777

shows as

www.mydomain.com/777

where 777 is the primary key in my news table.

Thanks,
Jassim

[Derokorian]

Assuming you have an Apache server and mod_rewrite enabled:

# Make sure rewrite is on
RewriteEngine ON
#set the base of the rewrites
RewriteBase /

#if requesting a real file don't rewrite
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule (.+) $1 [L]

#rewrite numbers to news
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ news.php?id=$1 [L]

[jrahma]

I tried it but I am still getting .php?id=777

check this link : www.jassimRahma.com you'll see test title 1 and test title 2 with .php?id=1 and id=2 not /1 or /2

here is my full .htaccess

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^news$ /news.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tools$ /tools.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^projects$ /projects.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^cv$ /cv.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^skills$ /skills.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^experience$ /experience.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^bmi$ /bmi.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^myip$ /myip.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^browser$ /browser.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^speed$ /speed.php [NC,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule (.+) $1 [L]

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ headline.php?id=$1 [L]

ErrorDocument 400 /400.php
ErrorDocument 401 /401.php
ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /500.php

[jrahma]

posted something else by mistake..

I'll be waiting for the reply on .htaccess

Thanks...

[cretaceous]

I think you're muddling up what it is doing..

You are writing those links now (or they are being generated programmatically)...
so.. change them so that they show as:
www.mydomain.com/news/777

.. but the server does not understand that...

what then happens is that the address gets converted by mod_rewrite to:
www.mydomain.com/news.php?id=777

• which the server can understand and will deliver that news page to you with the item id of 777

I added the page name in the url as it looks like you need that as well - a number alone is (probably) not enough information

[bradgrafelman]

cretaceous;10992663 wrote:

a number alone is (probably) not enough information

Why wouldn't it be? That's all the information you need.

[jrahma]

so you mean when reading my data from database i have to set the (a href) as /777 not id=777?

it will then read it as id=777?

is that correct?

[cretaceous]

look at his groupings of pages :

RewriteRule ^news$ /news.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tools$ /tools.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^projects$ /projects.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^cv$ /cv.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^skills$ /skills.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^experience$ /experience.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^bmi$ /bmi.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^myip$ /myip.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^browser$ /browser.php [NC,QSA]
RewriteRule ^speed$ /speed.php [NC,QSA]

a number alone will not split page addresses to all his categories
- unless everything is in one master table, hence "probably"

[jrahma]

thest categories has nothing to do with the headline.php

headline.php is the only file which has id number

[cretaceous]

ok so you don't need category name and yes do your links as

www.mydomain.com/777

[jrahma]

I will.

Last question please :evilgrin:

If I am going to write my links as /777 then how can I get the Query String for the [id] from headline.php?

[jrahma]

I got it

Thank you so much everybody

[cretaceous]

mod_rewrite is one of those things that can be hard to grasp.. and a pain to begin with.. but after you get it, it's one of those secret weapons in your bag of tools that is plain cool (if you're a nerd, that is :evilgrin: )