Question

In my server root I have a directory called “repos”.
I would like request like “server-name/repos/identifier” to call the “repos/index.php?id=identifier”, where identifier is something the user can chose.

How do I accomplish this with .htaccess?

Answer 1

You can either put these rules in your document root:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^/?repos/(.*)$ /repos/index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

or if you’d rather put rules in an htaccess file in the /repos directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /repos/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]