Question

I am working with a CMS that needs pretty urls.
I found this snippet of htaccess code that I thought would solve all my problems:

Options +FollowSymLinks  
RewriteEngine On  

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f  

RewriteRule ^(\w+)$ ./index.php?route=$1  

Then on index.php I put this:

echo $_GET['route'];

If I go to mywebsite.com/cars, I can see “cars”. Perfect. But if I go to mywebsite.com/cars/ford, I get a “page not found”. What am I doing wrong? I want everything after the first “/” to be stuck into the route variable so I can explode it and make magic.

Answer 1

This should work flawlessly:

RewriteEngine On  
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d  
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]

You don’t have to pass the URL as a GET parameter to your script, because that would cause additional headaches about escaping special characters. You can easily access your URL via $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’].