Question

Apache Mod-Rewrite, I have a problem not a error as such but the following makes both $1 and $2 equal to $1 i.e ‘survey’

RewriteRule ^((survey|quiz|form|widget))/create$ items/create/?type=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^((survey|quiz|form|widget))/([0-9]+)/edit$ items/edit/?type=$1&id=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^((survey|quiz|form|widget))/([0-9]+)/delete$ items/delete/?type=$1&id=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^((survey|quiz|form|widget))/([0-9]+)/results$ items/results/?type=$1&id=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^((survey|quiz|form|widget))/([0-9]+)/reliability$ items/reliability/?type=$1&id=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^((survey|quiz|form|widget))/([0-9]+)/publish$ items/publish/?type=$1&id=$2 [L]

So it is like

/widget/45657/publish

will go to

/items/publish/?type=widget&id=widget

Instead of

/items/publish/?type=widget&id=45657

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Why two parenthesis? This explain your problem.

Try this:

RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/create$ items/create/?type=$1 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/([0-9]+)/edit$ items/edit/?type=$1&id=$2 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/([0-9]+)/delete$ items/delete/?type=$1&id=$2 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/([0-9]+)/results$ items/results/?type=$1&id=$2 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/([0-9]+)/reliability$ items/reliability/?type=$1&id=$2 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/([0-9]+)/publish$ items/publish/?type=$1&id=$2 [NC,QSA,L]

By the way you could optimize your rules with something close to:

RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/create$ items/create/?type=$1 [NC,QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(survey|quiz|form|widget)/([0-9]+)/(edit|delete|results|reliability|publish)$ items/$3/?type=$1&id=$2 [NC,QSA,L]

Ain’t that shorter? ;)