[users@httpd] mod_rewrite question

[Edwards Jim <je...@ur.se>]

Hello,
I need to rewrite some URLs:
Case 1:
http://localhost/folder/parent.php -> http://localhost/parent

Case 2:
http://localhost/folder/child.php?parent=parent -> http://localhost/parent/child

is this possible using mod_rewrite on Apache.

Thanks
Jim

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Re: [users@httpd] mod_rewrite question

[Robert Andersson <ro...@profundis.nu>]

Robert Andersson wrote:
> Probably. [...] this would do it:

Probably not :( I must not be getting enough coffee...

>     RewriteEngine On
>     RewriteRule ^/folder/(\w+)\.php /$1/
>     RewriteRule ^/folder/(\w+)\.php\?parent=(\w+) /$2/$1

Correction:

    RewriteRule ^/folder/(\w+)\.php$ /$1/
    RewriteRule ^/folder/(\w+)\.php\?parent=(\w+)$ /$2/$1

Note the end anchor $; without it this wouldn't work very well.

Regards,
Robert Andersson

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Re: [users@httpd] mod_rewrite question

[Robert Andersson <ro...@profundis.nu>]

Edwards Jim wrote:
> I need to rewrite some URLs:
> Case 1:
> http://localhost/folder/parent.php
>     -> http://localhost/parent
>
> Case 2:
> http://localhost/folder/child.php?parent=parent
>     -> http://localhost/parent/child
>
> is this possible using mod_rewrite on Apache.

Probably. I am not certain of the semantics here, but assuming both "parent"
and "child" are variable names, this would do it:

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/folder/(\w+)\.php /$1/
    RewriteRule ^/folder/(\w+)\.php\?parent=(\w+) /$2/$1

I added a trailing slash to the first case, as I assumed it's was a
directory? You might need to change "(\w+)" to be a character class to
include whatever characters "parent" or "child" might contains, eg:
"([\w-_\.]+)", or maybe just "(.+)". If you're not very familiar with
regular expressions you should read:

    http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/perlre.html

Regards,
Robert Andersson


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