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Asked: 2026-06-18T03:08:47+00:00

Flash movies are called based on dynamic links on mypage.php . mypage.php has the

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Flash movies are called based on dynamic links on mypage.php. mypage.php has the flash player embedded. The links look like mypage.php?moviefolder=folder1/folder2&swfTitle=sometitle.swf. mypage.php is parsed on each link click (per the href). Folder2 is always the same but movieTitle.swf is dynamic. Sometimes subfolders will be called (folder2/subfolder2/sometitle.swf).

Can mod_rewrite allow the query string to reflect folder2 but instead silently serve folder3 as well as occasional subfolders? I would place all files in folder3. The goal is to have the user not know where the swfs are. Thanks in advance again!

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    Using a RewriteCond to match the contents of the query string (since they are not read in a RewriteRule directive, you can extract swfTitle=sometitle.swf and substitute folder1/folder3 for folder1/folder2 in the moviefolder.

    This will use a regex pattern like ([^&]+) to match everything up to the next & (which denotes another query param).

    # Capture everything after folder2 into %1
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} moviefolder=folder1/folder2([^&]+) [NC]
# Capture everything in the swfTitle param into %2
# Both conditions must be matched...
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} swfTitle=([^&]+) [NC]
# Then silently rewrite mypage.php to substitute folder3,
# and pass in the original swfTitle captured above
RewriteRule ^mypage\.php$ mypage.php?moviefolder=folder1/folder3%1&swfTitle=%2 [L]

    Hopefully, you won’t get a rewrite loop, since the rewritten folder1/folder3 won’t match the second time. [NC] allows for a case-insensitive match.

    I did manage to successfully test this over at http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/, using the sample input:

    http://example.com/mypage.php?swfTitle=thetitle.swf&moviefolder=folder1/folder2/thing
---> http://example.com/mypage.php?moviefolder=folder1/folder3/thing&swfTitle=thetitle.swf

http://example.com/mypage.php?moviefolder=folder1/folder2/thing999zzz&swfTitle=thetitle.swf
---> http://example.com/mypage.php?moviefolder=folder1/folder3/thing999zzz&swfTitle=thetitle.swf
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