Question

My .htacces begins with

   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /

(I tried it also without RewriteBase…)

I tried all of the following rewriting rules to rewrite the URL

index.php?page=news

to

/blog

• RewriteRule ^/?([-A-Za-z0-9]+)/([-A-Za-z0-9]+)/blog$
  index.php?page=$1 [L]
• RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/blog$ /sites/blog/index.php?page=$1 [L]
• RewriteRule ([a-zA-z]+)/([a-zA-z]+)/blog$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Nothing works – no error. Mod_rewrite is installed and working. I restarted Apache and MySQL everytime I changed something in my .htaccess.

I also want to change my URLs which looks like this… index.php?page=single_news&category=release&id=9&headline=Beastie%20Boys%20III

…into: blog/release/9-Beastie-Boys-III

I am lost. Hope you can help me.

Answer 1

Here’s the solution to change links from http://www.domain.tld/index.php?page=blog to http://www.domain.tld/blog is:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^\w+$ index.php?page=$0 [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} index\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^page=(\w+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /%1? [R=301,L]

and for links like: http://www.domain.tld/index.php?page=single_news&id=1&headline=This%20Is%20A%Headline

the solution is:

RewriteRule ^blog/(\d+)-([\w-]+)$ index.php?page=single_news&id=$1&headline=$2

After using this code, links looks like this: http://www.domain.tld/blog/2-this-is-a-headline