Question

I am new to the URL rewrite rules and would like to rewrite some URLs. Below is my problem:

I have created two rules (which works fine) that will hide the *.php extension from the URL. One is to redirect “/abc.php” to “/abc”. Another rule is to Rewrite /abc as /abc.php. These two rules work fine and I use the following pattern.

• ^([^/]+)/?\.php$ –> Redirects to –> {R:1}
• ^([^/]+)/?$ –> Rewrites to –> {R:1}.php

Now I have a problem. I have a page which goes like www.example.com/member?getuser=chris (note that it’s not member.php?getuser=chrisyeung because of the previous rules). I want to rewrite the URL to:

www.example.com/member/chris

I tried to follow some tutorials and use the following pattern:

`^/member/(_[0-0a-z-]+)` --> Rewrites to --> `^member?getuser={R:1}`. 

…but it doesn’t work.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

I don’t unterstand your first two rules. Rewrite *.php to * and * to *.php – sounds like a loop for me. I assume your files are named .php and you want your visitors use URLs w/o this file extension. Then just rewrite * to *.php.

For your members pages, use:

^/member/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]+) member.php?getuser={R:1} [QSA]

I changes the list of valid characters inside the [] and I call member.php directly – no need for issuing another rule. QSA is for passing through further URL params.