Question

I wanted to set .htaccess to rewrite:

example.com/bla/info/ 

to

example.com/info/index.php?q=bla  example.com/bla/info/txt/ 

to

example.com/info/index.php?q=bla&t=txt 

I wanted the browser still to display:

example.com/bla/info/txt/ 

I didn’t want rewrite in the level 2 rewrites, like:

example.com/bla/xxx/  

or

example.com/ccc/zzz/aaa/ 

but

example.com/silly/info/  

would work as well as

example.com/strange/info/mytxt/ 

Did this make sense?

Any help?

Answer 1

If you start your pattern with ^ and end it with $, the rule will only apply if the whole string matches.

RewriteRule   ^/bla/info/$      /info/index.php?q=bla RewriteRule   ^/bla/info/txt/$  /info/index.php?q=bla&t=txt 

If you use do not use the [R] option, the URL shown in the browser will be whatever the user entered.

Are you trying to make this general-purpose? If so, you can use regex-type matching and variable substitution. To make ‘bla’ match any string up to the next slash (/), use

([^/]+) 

in your pattern and reference it with $1 in your substitution.

RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/info/$          /info/index.php?q=$1 RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/info/([^/]+)/$  /info/index.php?q=$1&t=$2 

I recommend the Apache web pages about mod_rewrite for more information.

[Edit. Fixed the rules to not include the host name in the pattern, as the original poster figured out.]

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