Question

I want to replace my.example.com/newsletter.php or example.com/newsletter.php to be example.com/newsletter/

I tried this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ /$1.php [L]

and what if I want http://example.com/communities/index.php?sub_id=1

to be a specific name like http://example.com/communities/Bridlewood/

possible?

Answer 1

The other answers are right about the leading slash, and you should catch the possibility of a trailing slash (bearing in mind that ‘$’ marks the end of a string .

Try something like this:

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^([a-z-]+)/?$ /$1.php [QSA,NC,L]

Note: The QSA flag stands for ‘query string append’ and will pass any url query on to the relevant page.

hth

EDIT: For URL’s that contain characters other than lower case alpha’s you should change the range group, use a case-insensitive switch or simply use (.*) as per other peoples examples!