Question

I’m trying to implement Permalinks into my content management system and I seem to be stuck at a problem with mod_rewrite. I have a PHP file (single.php) which will display a single post based on the Permalink name that gets passed through to it. i.e. post.php?permalink=name-of-post-here.

Here are the rules I’ve set up:

RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([a-z]+)?$ $1/ [R]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([a-z]+)?$ post.php?permalink=$1

Also, how do I get the date/year (i.e. 2012), and assign that as a parameter for the PHP file. (i.e. post.php?year=2012?permalink=name-of-post-here) & can all of this be done using mod_rewrite?

Many Thanks.

Want to change

http://www.website.com/post.php?year=2012&permalink=post-name-here

to

http://www.website.com/2012/post-name-here

Answer 1

You should use this code:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/(.*)$ post.php?year=$1&permalink=$2 [L,R,NC,QSA]

If you don’t want external redirect (change URL in browser) then remove R flag.