Question

How do I go about writing the conditions for mod_rewrite to make this example happen?

Have a URL this like…

http://domain.com/recent/5

Render this page…

http://domain.com/index.php?view=recent&page=5

And if there is no page number specified (note I want it to work with or without trailing-slash)…

http://domain.com/recent/

It will default to page 1…

http://domain.com/index.php?view=recent&page=1

But when someone just goes to the root domain…

http://domain.com

I want this page to render…

http://domain.com/index.php?view=popular&page=1

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Put this in the htaccess file in your document root:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([0-9]+) /index.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?view=popular&page=1 [L,QSA]