Question

How would I go about removing two directories with the following rule?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^/subdir/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /subdir/jadehttp.dll?Www_MySite&Action01=$1&H04=$2&cats=$3&states=$4 [L,NC]

Currently the friendly url successfully outputs to http://mysite.com/subdir/landingpage/1/packages/vic.
I want it to look like: http://mysite.com/subdir/packages/vic
Any ideas?

Answer 1

You have your existing rules, which are fine:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^/subdir/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /subdir/jadehttp.dll?Www_MySite&Action01=$1&H04=$2&cats=$3&states=$4 [L,NC]

Then add these after them to account for 2 missing path nodes in the URL:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^/subdir/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /subdir/jadehttp.dll?Www_MySite&cats=$1&states=$2 [L,NC]

That rule will take a URL request like http://mysite.com/subdir/packages/vic and internally rewrite it to /subdir/jadehttp.dll?Www_MySite&cats=packages&states=vic. The Action01 and H04 parameters are thus lost.

could you also show me what it would look like if it had to get the parameters for Action01 and H04 but hidden from the newly passed url?

You can embed some defaults, say for example:

RewriteRule ^/subdir/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /subdir/jadehttp.dll?Www_MySite&Action01=FOO&H04=BAR&cats=$1&states=$2 [L,NC]

replacing the FOO and BAR with some default values. But since there’s nothing else in the URI to extract from, you can’t get those parameters from the URI. If they’re not part of the URI, there’s nothing else to extract them from.