Mod Rewrite Question - HTML Forums

Paul · 10-06-2008, 09:01 PM

Hello,

I am having a hard time with a rewrite rule. I would like to make it so that mysite.com/category_name.html rewrites to fetch_templates.php?cat_name=category_name

Is something like this possible? The following doesn't seem to be working properly:

Code:

RewriteRule (.*).html fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1

¥åßßå · 10-07-2008, 02:58 AM

You must have some other conflict because this works for me on it's own in .htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*).html fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1

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Paul · 10-07-2008, 09:02 AM

Hmm, that's what I was using. I was seeing some funky behavior. I'm gonna try it again after work and get back.

¥åßßå · 10-07-2008, 09:46 AM

One possibility is that you have lines after that in htaccess in which case add [QSA,L] after the rule ( Query String Attach, Last )

Code:

RewriteRule (.*).html fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1 [QSA,L]

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Paul · 10-07-2008, 09:49 AM

I did have additional rules after it so that was probably it. Thanks, I'll give this a try and see if it works.

Paul · 10-08-2008, 08:48 PM

Seems to work perfectly, thanks (sorry I cant give you any more rep right now).

Paul · 10-08-2008, 09:57 PM

Actually there is one thing that is annoying me, it's not a big deal but if it can be fixed that would be great.

This rewrite rule works fine if I do:

xhtml-css-templates.html

The problem is it also works fine if I put something else after .html, such as:

xhtml-css-templates.html23213123124

Is there anyway so that the latter will not work?

¥åßßå · 10-09-2008, 01:48 AM

This should work

Code:

RewriteRule (.*).html$ fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1 [QSA,L]

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Paul · 10-09-2008, 01:27 PM

That seems to do the trick but now I'm running in to another issue (sorry to keep bugging). Here is my htaccess file:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule p/(.*)/(.*) fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1&page_num=$2
RewriteRule p/(.*)/(.*)/ fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1&page_num=$2
RewriteRule templates/(.*).html$ display_template.php?id=$1
RewriteRule (.*).html$ fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1 [QSA,L]

So anytime someone puts in mysite.com/templates/25.html it should call display_template.php?id=25. However, it actually calls fetch_templates.php?cat_name=25. Is there a way to get around this? I noticed if I change RewriteRule templates/(.*).html$ display_template.php?id=$1 to RewriteRule templates/(.*).htm$ display_template.php?id=$1 it works fine.

¥åßßå · 10-09-2008, 03:08 PM

I'm guessing it's because it matches the last and 2nd last rule, you need to tell it to stop on first match

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule p/(.*)/(.*) fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1&page_num=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule p/(.*)/(.*)/ fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1&page_num=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule templates/(.*).html$ display_template.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule (.*).html$ fetch_templates.php?cat_name=$1 [QSA,L]

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seovb · 10-31-2008, 07:10 PM

Thanks, these helped me finally figure some rules out on my site thats been redirecting things all crazy