URL Rewriting

[Ian]

I can't get URL rewriting to work for the life of me. I have seen some of the threads on this forum and have something like the snippet below, but it doesn't work.

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

Basically I want my index.php?sec= to be replaced with the query string value, so it would be mydomain.com/about.

Any ideas?

[djn]

I guess your request is getting stuck in a loop. I'd suspect the rule is being indeed applied as expected, but then the rewritten request is being sent again to the RewriteEngine and the rule reapplied to it.
I believe a RewriteCond is called for here, preventing the rule to be applied to requests for index.php.
As a more general advice I'd enable mod_rewrite logging to see what exactly is being processed, too.

[ZYV]

What exactly does not work the way you want it to?

Basically I want my index.php?sec= to be replaced with the query string value, so it would be mydomain.com/about.

Your regular expression only applies to the relative URL path so there is no way it can give you "mydomain.com/about". What you will get is just "about" in this example. If you want the host, it might be easier to fish it out of the $_SERVER[] superglobal or alternatively use %{HTTP_HOST} or whatever it is environment variable.

[Ian]

I'm not sure I follow, but I've tried just about every RewriteRule I can find on the web and none of them have worked for me.

[Ian]

Okay, some progress. I don't understand why so many of the examples I've tried from the web do not work, but this one does.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?sec=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?sec=$1

Now the problem is if you access my site with

https://www.mysite.com/services

But if you use

https://www.mysite.com/services/

the images do not load.

So is there a way to rewrite the image paths in .htaccess. Also, this only works if you type the new URL's directly. I guess I need some kind of redirect too.

[ZYV]

I have no idea why the first example in the thread does not work for you. You are clearly doing something wrong, but you don't want to get into the details for your results to be reproducible by others. There is no way anybody can help you unless one can reproduce your problem and therefore I really don't understand what kind of feedback you are expecting to obtain.

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blah(.*)$ blah.php?sec=$1 [L,QSA]

blah.php

<?php echo $_GET["sec"]; ?>

http://test.zaytsev.net/blahfoo

Everything works perfectly fine for me.

As for the last example, for course the images won't load. Use image paths relative to the root (/img/blah.png) or <base> tag in your markup.

[Ian]

Well, it helps to know that it works for you, no one said it was correct.

I looked at your example. My second example is working, but I want it to do this automatically even if you type in index.php?sec=blah and then just redirects to /blah. Everything I've looked at says this is possible, but I have not been able to duplicate it.

[ZYV]

Everything I've looked at says this is possible, but I have not been able to duplicate it.

What seems to be the problem?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

[Camo.Fish]

lol

i just posted this in another topic, but here it is again:

.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
# Remove www.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
# Translate Semantic to Get
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?sec=$1 [L,QSA]


the QSA is query string append, so if you have any get variables they will still work. you can see this in action @ http://lookintomycode.com or http://a-little-taste-of-j.com (only pages starting with A-L have content thus far) has some examples of using /s in the semantic url on the deeper pages.