Question

I have a single page website that changes content based on variables passed through the URL with PHP.

For instance, my url displays as

www.mysite.com/index.php?section=home
www.mysite.com/index.php?section=about-us

so forth and so on, depending upon which link you click in the main navigation.

I want the urls to read as www.mysite.com/home or www.mysite.com/about-us.

My mod-rewrite feature is enabled because before I made this a one page site, it was functioning correctly.

I’ve tried this…

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^home/?$ index.php?section=$1 [NC,L]

I’ve tried every suggestion I found on Google and on StackOverflow, nothing is working.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I have an .htaccess for exactly the same purpose, and it’s working beautifully. My code is below.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [L]

Naturally, if index.php isn’t your main PHP file, replace that with what is. Also, replace ?id with ?section if your example code is what your using.

What the [^/\.]+ means is saying I need you to find text that contains anything but a period (.) or a forward slash (/), and there has to be at least one character in it.

For an example, go to the website I’m using it on, Northside Aikido.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

EDIT

Note, this code won’t turn http://www.example.com/index.php?section=home into http://www.example.com/home automagically, it’ll just mean that the latter link works like the former. If you want it to automatically replace it, you’ll need more code than one line.