Question

Hello I’ve bee trying for 1 week now to fix some urls on my custom built site but I can’t accomplish what I want 100%. So here is my question:

I have a php landing page that manages events the default url structure is this:

foreach($resultSet as $key => $event)
{
    echo '<a href="/event.php?eid='.$event['eid'].'&cat='.$event['categroy'].'&title='.urlencode($event['title']).'">content</a>';
}

As you can see the url format is like this

/event.php?eid=145&cat=metal&title=Great+gig

What I would like it to be through htaccess is something like this

domain.com/event/metal/Great gig

I’ve been reading htaccess guides but I cant make it work with more tahn 1 params on the url please advise, Thank you.

Answer 1

1. Change your php code so that it generates URLs that look like domain.com/event/metal/Great gig:

   echo '<a href="/event/'.$event['eid'].'/'.$event['categroy'].'/'.urlencode($event['title']).'">content</a>';
   

   (Note that the 'category' is mispelled in your example)

2. Add these rules in the htaccess file in your document root, preferably above any rules you may have already there:

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteRule ^/?event/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)$ /event.php?eid=$1&cat=$2&title=$3 [L,QSA]
   

Additionally, if you have links that are out of your control that still have the query string, you can add these rules:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^(GET|HEAD)\ /event\.php\?eid=([^&]+)&cat=([^&]+)&title=([^\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^ /event/%2/%3/%4? [L,R=301]