Getting PHP to read the clean URL created by .htaccess

acs8

Hi there, I wonder if you can help me out.

I'm trying to create clean URLs and so far I've managed to use .htaccess to convert the following URL:

http://www.example.com/index.php?cat...on1&page=Page1

into:

www.example.com/Section1/Page1/

The problem is then getting PHP to interpret the URL and extract the variables. Here's the code I'm using:

.htaccess code:

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 Options +FollowSymLinks

Options +Indexes

RewriteEngine on
 
#INTERNAL STATIC URL TO DYNAMIC URL

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

RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?c=$1&p=$2 [L]
 
#EXTERNAL DYNAMIC URL TO STATIC URL

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,3}\ /index\.php\?catagory=([^&]+)\ HTTP/

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/%1/? [R=301,L] 

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,3}\ /index\.php\?catagroy=([^&]+)&page=([^&]+)\ HTTP/

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/%1/%2/? [R=301,L]

PHP code:

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 $urlVariables = explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

$catagory = $urlVariables[1];

$page = $urlVariables[2];

With this I keep getting a 404 error page. If I add index.php into this line of the htacces code:

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RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/index.php/%1/? [R=301,L]

The page at least loads, but the css and images are not loaded.

Any suggestions to what I'm missing here?
Many thanks

dlite922

You need to make an exception for js and css files I think.

Not sure.

philipwayne

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think that could be due to paths. Your no longer at a relative path you need to use absolute paths if your using rewrite.

/home/stylesheets/main.css != /home/rewriten/stylesheets/main.css

Atli

Hey.

To fix the stuff like images and css files, you could try something like:

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 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(css|js|jpe?g|png|gif|ttf|eot)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ([^/\.]+)\.(css|js|jpe?g|png|gif|ttf|eot)$ /resources/$2/$1.$2

That should rewrite all of the listed extensions into "/resources/ext/file.ext".
(Note I haven't tested it yet.)

It is of course best to just use absolute paths when loading resources.

Atli

As to your internal rewrites, I see one potentially fatal problem.
Your first rule, "^/([^/]+)/?$", matches all requests that start with a "/", that include an undetermined amount of non "/" characters, and that may or may not end in "/"... That'll match pretty much everything, including "/index.php?c=xxx&p=yyy".

This will most likely leave you in an indefinite loop, eventually causing Apache to break out with a 500 code. (A match causes an internal redirect, which is then process again as a new request and subsequently passed through mod_rewrite again.)

Also, I'm not entirly sure you should be including the "/" char at the beginning of the regular expression. Apache may strip it from the request URL. (Not 100% sure though.)

Try something like this instead:

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RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?([^/]+)?/? index.php?c=$1&p=$2 [L,QSA]

(Note, this one replaced both of your internal requests. The second option is made optional by the ? char.)

P.S.
If you need to specify some specific directory before the "index.php", you may want to try the RewriteBase instead.

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 RewriteBase http://example.com/some/dir/

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?([^/]+)?/? index.php?c=$1&p=$2 [L,QSA]

There the index.php in the RewriteRule is rewritten as http://example.com/some/dir/index.php?c=xxx&p=yyy

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