Question

how can i use htaccess to catch a friendly url like

/error/access/notallowed

and break it down to

error.php?$1=$2

but the real question is what if i have another url

/something/name/joe/address/123_Maples_Lane/city/somewhere

and do the same thing dynamically if all the odd segments are key value pairs to the even segments.

would I need PHP to do the splits in segments or can htaccess create the query on the fly?

Answer 1

apache can’t create a rewrite with an arbitrary number of parameters since it has to work off of a PCRE expression. You would have to use PHP to do this. However, apache, is still involved:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]

This will route all nonexistent requests to index.php/ and the request will be the path. Then, you can break down the path on index.php.