Question

My website has several files and folders:

mywebsite.com/index.php
mywebsite.com/files/...

Our users asked me if it would be possible to create url alias like this:

mywebsite.com/thisalias -> mywebsite.com/index.php?var=thisalias

With other words: if the folder/file “thisalias” doesn’t exist, it should redirect. I have tried several code samples from StackOverflow but for some reason it didn’t work on my host. Any suggestions? I’m not really good with .htaccess coding.

Answer 1

I believe this is what you are looking for.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ index.php?var=$1 [L]
</IfModule>