Question

I have a .htaccess file with the following rules:

RewriteRule ^(boards)/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)/([^./+])/?$ index.php?param0=$1&param1=$2&param2=$3&param3=$4&param4=$5&param5=$6 [NC]

RewriteRule ^(boards)/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)/([^./]+)/?$ index.php?param0=$1&param1=$2&param2=$3&param3=$4&param4=$5 [NC]

RewriteRule ^(boards)/(.+)/(.+)/([^./]+)/?$ index.php?param0=$1&param1=$2&param2=$3&param3=$4 [NC]

RewriteRule ^(boards)/(.+)/([^./]+)/?$ index.php?param0=$1&param1=$2&param2=$3 [NC]

RewriteRule ^(boards)/([^./]+)/?$ index.php?param0=$1&param1=$2 [NC]

RewriteRule ^(boards)/?$ index.php?param0=$1 [NC]

My question: would it be possible to combine those into just one rule? It’s pretty annoying to maintain like this…

Answer 1

If you can modify index.php, you can do this:

RewriteRule ^boards/(.*) index.php?url=$1 [NC]

and parse $_GET['url'] yourself inside index.php.

Even better, you can do

RewriteRule ^boards/.* index.php [NC]

and then parse $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] yourself in index.php.