Problem with mod_rewrite

Anon

Hi,

I want to rebuild my PHP/MySQL based website and try to shorten the URLs. At the moment, I have a lot of URLs like

/skript.php4?var1=16&var2=17&var3=58&var4=16

I want to use Apaches Rewrite Engine in the .htaccess so users get the same result when they enter

/skript.php4/16/17/58/16

My problem is that I have problems in understanding the regular expressions for the rewrite rules, so I am looking for a little example. A link to an example would also be fine. I also studied the Apache documentation but I didn't really understand it.

Thanks for advance and sorry, if this is a little off-topic.

Ralf

Anon

One way to do this:
In your .htaccess file put

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^process script.php

(process could really be anything)
Now any url such as www.yourdomain.com/process/16/17/58/16 will be processed by script.php which should be in the same directory as the .htaccess file.

Now either in your script.php or in a file that is included in script.php put the following code (from an article on this site by Tim Perdue):
$url_array = explode("/", $REQUEST_URI);
$var1 = $url_array[2];
$var2 = $url_array[3];
etc.

Now the variables are accessible to your script. There are other ways of doing this but this is the approach I had to use with my situation (not running as a module) and it works well.

Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia

Anon

Hi Trevor,

thank you very much for your quick help. It works perfect on my server. Did not know, that it would be so easy.

The only problem I have now is that it doesn't work on my W98AMP System here. Somehow I have troubles getting the .htaccess to work. I renamed the file to a.htaccess because Win98 needs something before the .htaccess. I changed the AccessFileName in the httpd.conf of my Apache, but it still doesn't work. Putting the RewriteRules in the httpd.conf also didn't work (Apache doesn't start properly).

Anyone any idea?

Thanks.

Ralf