Question

Lets say I have a site that has one page that handles all requests (index.php)

Now, I want tidy URL’s, so I can use .htaccess to redirect to valid URL’s –

part 1 – re-directing all requests to index page where the url string is “exploded” into an array for parsing:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots|files|blog|[0-9]+$)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

part 2 – http://example.com/123456:

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ index.php?user=$1 [L]

part 3 – http://example.com/blog/blog_title.html:

RewriteRule ^blog/([a-z0-9-_]+)\.html$ index.php?blog=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^blog/. /blog/ [R]

Obviously here, I am redirecting the blog post to index.php with the blog variable being the part before “.html” (blog_title), along with any non-compliant URL’s being forwarded to the /blog/ directory.

The problem I have is that I need to then re-direct the URL to “index.php?page=blog” while keeping the address bar displaying http://example.com/blog/

any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Even though you found the solution yourself, I thought you might be interested in an alternative way to solve this. This is where I came up with 🙂

RewriteCond $1 !^blog/.
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots|files|[0-9]+$)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Maybe you could even combine the two conditions into RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots|files|blog/.|[0-9]+$), but I not sure about the priority of the logical-or (i.e. |).