Question

I need a regular expression to match this URL to enable URL rewriting.

http://www.somewhere.com/index.php?route=common/home

This is an OpenCart website.

UPDATE:

I am trying to use the regular expression to perform URL Rewriting on IIS7. The first part of the URL doesn’t need exact domain name matching but I need the to get a resulting URL as follows

http://www.somewhere.com/common/home

Answer 1

you didn’t specify the language in which you’re doing this (protip: not all regexp implementations have the same rules) so I’m solving it in python:

>>> import re
>>> pattern = '([^/]+)//([^/]+)/index\.php\?route=([^ ]+)'
>>> repl = '\\1//\\2/\\3'
>>> url = 'http://www.somewhere.com/index.php?route=common/home'
>>> re.sub(pattern, repl, url)
'http://www.somewhere.com/common/home'