Question

I am trying to use PHP mod_rewrite to alter some URLs.

As a test, in my .htaccess I have the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*[^/])$ index.php?test=$1
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ index.php?test=$1

In my index.php file I have simply

<?php print_r($_GET) ?>

What I would like to happen is that when either mysite.com/test or mysite.com/test/ is in the browser address bar, the PHP $_GET[‘test’] variable has the value ‘test’ in it.

The commented line works fine with mysite.com/test/ but seems to do nothing with mysite.com/test

The second line (the uncommented one) results in a value of ‘index.php’ for $_GET[‘test’] when viewing mysite.com/test and doesn’t do anything with mysite.com/test/

Is there anything I’m overlooking here that will allow me to get the desired results?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?$ index.php?test=$1

Note for *? quantifier, which declares * to be ungreedy

http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm#Greedy