[users@httpd] Help On RewriteRule

[Jayaram Ponnusamy <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I made below rewriteRule to redirect URL from
http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom/2015/4 to
http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom?year=2015&month=4.
Redirection is happening fine and In Address Bar we are getting From URL as
expected.

We have filtering option to select year & Month to view news articles. The
below rewriteRule help to manually enter the URL, but we would like to keep
the same as dynamically.
For example, if User selects year 2010 and month 6 then they should get the
page with SEO friendly URL in the address bar
http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom/2010/6 instead of
http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom?year=2010&month=6

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule /sites/en_US/about/newsroom/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)
sites/en_US/about/newsroom?year=$1&month=$2 [P]


Kindly please help me on this.

Thanks
Jayaram

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Re: [users@httpd] Help On RewriteRule

[Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>]

On 08/07/2016 06:47 AM, Jayaram Ponnusamy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I made below rewriteRule to redirect URL from
> http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom/2015/4 to
> http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom?year=2015&month=4.
> Redirection is happening fine and In Address Bar we are getting From URL
> as expected.
> 
> We have filtering option to select year & Month to view news articles.
> The below rewriteRule help to manually enter the URL, but we would like
> to keep the same as dynamically.
> For example, if User selects year 2010 and month 6 then they should get
> the page with SEO friendly URL in the address bar
> http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom/2010/6 instead of
> http://cmspweb1.com/sites/en_US/about/newsroom?year=2010&month=6
> 
> RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine
> RewriteRule /sites/en_US/about/newsroom/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)
> sites/en_US/about/newsroom?year=$1&month=$2 [P]
> 

I'm pretty sure you don't want [P] on this. Perhaps you meant [PT]?

I would also recommend that you just make 'newsroom' smarter. That is,
instead of having the 'newsroom' handler expect a QUERY_STRING, have it
read PATH_INFO as well (or instead). In that way, you don't have to
rewrite anything, ever, and you're less prone to error and rewrite failure.


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