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Asked: 2026-06-04T19:56:44+00:00

i want to write .htaccess whcih pass 5 letters to the page as variable

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i want to write .htaccess whcih pass 5 letters to the page as variable
those 5 letters are (small alphabets & numbers only)

For example if someone goto http://www.abc.com/etd01 i want to pass etd01 to http://www.abc.com/link.php?link=etd01

so i wrote

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ LinkCode.php?LinkCode=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ LinkCode.php?LinkCode=$1

it is working but if some open http://www.abc.com/dswdrd then also it is passing the variable.
what i want is if length is 5 they pass otherwise do nothing

is it possible??

no i have change my .htaccess file to

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]{5})/?$ LinkCode.php?LinkCode=$1

but now when i place 

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]{5})/?$ LinkCode.php?LinkCode=$1

at the end of joomla .htaccess file it doesnt work

joomla .htaccess file is below

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]{5})/?$ LinkCode.php?LinkCode=$1

<Files ~ "\.vcf$">
ForceType text/x-vcard
</Files>
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  1. Editorial Team

    1) You have +, which means 1 or more. If you want 5 exactly, replace it by {5}.

    2) You said you want “(small alphabets & numbers only)”, but your template will ALSO match capital letters as well as minus - and underscore _. I have removed them from pattern to match your requirement.

    3) I’ve also joined 2 rules into 1 (will handle URL with and without trailing slash).

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]{5})/?$ LinkCode.php?LinkCode=$1
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