Question

I have a problem working with .htacess file and url aliasing and GET method to retrieve values

.htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    # Enable Rewriting 
    RewriteEngine on 
    RewriteRule ^search-location/(\w+)/?$ findjob4.php?loc=$1
</IfModule>

findjob.php file

if (isset($_GET['loc']) or !empty($_GET['loc'])) {
    $d_location = $_GET['loc'];
    echo "Location : " . $d_location;
}

below are the operations what i did,

URL 1   :   www.example.com/search-location/london
ouput   :   Location : london
status  :   Good


URL 2   :   www.example.com/search-location/north-london
output  :   Error 404 , Object not found!
Status  :   The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.


URL 3   :   www.example.com/search-location/north%20london
output  :   Error 404 , Object not found!
Status  :   The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

But i could not get the values of those GET method loc variables, if i give a . . (space) or - (hypen) between url values.
how do i get the values from the url..

thanks

Answer 1

Try replacing the (\w+) with (.*) which matches anything instead of just a word. Or if you want just characters and a dash (-) you can use this: ([A-Za-z-]+)
Also there’s this tool that helps debugging .htaccess stuff.