Question

I searched this problem in the site, but I couldn’t find a solution.

I have a php page, call
http://www.domain.com/topic.php?name=xyz

I want to call this page with
http://www.domain.com/topic/xyz

What I tried is;

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]*)$ /topic.php?name=$1 [L]

However because of this "/" I get 404 error. If I try "-" instead of "/" it works. I guess "/" forward user to folder "/topic" so I need a solution to fix it.

Answer 1

I found my solution to problem. It is a bit late though 🙂

I edit my .htaccess such that

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* redirect.php [L] 

I create a redirect.php as you see. In this file, I explode slashes, then by using if statement I set

$path =  explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
switch ($path[1])
{
    case 'topic': $_GET[name]=$path[2]; include('topic.php'); break;
}

As you see setting $_GET as a code isn’t handsome, but it works like a charm! 🙂 Thanks all for your helps.