My question is a simple one, but I can’t seem to find the answer. I’m currently working on some URL rewriting for a website, but I have encountered a problem. Currently the most basic rule I have goes something like this:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/(([a-zA-Z]+)/?$ index.php?mod=$1&com$2 This works in most cases, and I have some special cases for where this doesn’t apply, however one of the pages needs to pass a lot of information through the URL, and I want to automatically rewrite this. Some examples:
website.com/asdf/jkl/id/5/page/2 should become website.com/index.php?mod=asdf&com=jkl&id=5&page=2
website.com/qwer/yuio/search/keyword/sort/alpha should become website.com/index.php?mod=qwer&com=yuio&search=keyword&sort=alpha
Is this possible? I could really use some help here… Thanks! 🙂
Depending on what language/framework you’re using, it may be simpler to put the rewriting/dispatch in the script rather than attempt to do everything in mod_rewrite.
For example, if you were using PHP, given the URL:
a script at asf.php could read the PATH_INFO variable, split it on slashes, and write the values into the expected place in $_REQUEST.
Then all you need is one simple rewrite rule to elide the ‘.php’.