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Rewriting an arbitrary number of path segments to query parameters

I’m sure this has been asked many times but I don’t actually know what it is I’m searching for, so if someone could just point me to the correct place that would be brilliant.

Basically, I have a page “gallery.php” which at the moment loads images from directories (first part is hard coded) then in the url you’d type ?a=art/paris, so the full URL is gallery.php?a=art/gallery.

Is there a way I can modify apache and/or my php code so the user can type in /gallery/art/paris/ or /gallery/art/paris and get the same result? (anything after /gallery/ is the one parameter I need.

Answer 1

Try putting this in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-F

RewriteRule ^gallery/([a-z-A-Z0-9\/]+)$ /gallery.php?a=$1 [NC]