htaccess questions

w1ww · 02-23-2007, 10:51 AM

Hi,

What do I have to place on my htaccess so a link like 'index.php?author=MyName' to be displayed as folder/Myname/ ?

Thank you!

Hitch · 02-23-2007, 11:09 AM

Use this, http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod...enerator.shtml

sdsinc · 02-23-2007, 11:10 AM

What you need is mod_rewrite instead.

vinodkv · 02-23-2007, 11:38 AM

you need mode rewrite....you can use this

Code:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -f [OR] 
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} -d 
RewriteRule .* - [L] 
RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)\.html$ ./index.php?author=$1 [QSA,L]

Slewey · 02-23-2007, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by Hitch

Use this, http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mod...enerator.shtml

nice tool!

w1ww · 02-24-2007, 08:04 AM

Hitch, nice tool but I don't know exactly how to work with it!

vinodkv, that code you wrote will rewrite to NAME.html instead of directory, what I specifically want is to

URL: www.website.com/index.php?author=MyName
To be rewrite as: www.website.com/MyName

How to do it ?

Thank you

Matthew. · 02-24-2007, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by w1ww

Hitch, nice tool but I don't know exactly how to work with it!

vinodkv, that code you wrote will rewrite to NAME.html instead of directory, what I specifically want is to

URL: www.website.com/index.php?author=MyName
To be rewrite as: www.website.com/MyName

How to do it ?

Thank you

That's basic rewriting, try something like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?author=$1 [L]

([^/.]+) means we should find and store (in $1) any character but a period of forward slash
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/297796-htaccess-questions.html

/? is used to let users add a forward slash at the end of the url, with or without it will work

The [L] flag means if the rule is successful then do not check any more (optional)

Matt

w1ww · 02-24-2007, 08:50 AM

It works, thank you Matthew!

What if I wanted my start page to be in a directory like /site/ withou having to redirect the user?

Matthew. · 02-24-2007, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by w1ww

It works, thank you Matthew!

What if I wanted my start page to be in a directory like /site/ withou having to redirect the user?

Not sure what you mean by that exactly however if you wanted to change the url from /MyName to /site/MyName then simply change the rule to this:

Code:

RewriteRule ^site/([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?author=$1 [L]

Matt

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