Question

So i already have some rewrites in place, but in truth i didn’t write them 🙁 i’d love to understand them rather than just asking for help. But i know nothing about them and i don’t feel i have time spending hours learning 🙁

Anyway i’d like to turn

http://wouldyourathers.co.uk/?qid=1231

into:

http://wouldyourathers.co.uk/question/1231

For me qid is rather ugly. Lets just say i could easily change this to ?question but i still feel its not pretty.

Only problem is i already have rewrites in place with:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !dispatch\.php$
RewriteCond /var/www/wyr/docroot%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(/.*)$ /dispatch.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^x\.!dispatch\.php([^b]+)!dispatch\.php$ !dispatch\.php [L,NE]

This will point any request from my server to my dispatch.php and in here i basically mess around with the url’s to display them in a sexy way. But i’m stumped as to how i can edit the query. Once inside the dispatch file i can edit this and do the code i need to effect the data calls.

Thanks (even if this is longer than needs be)

Answer 1

Before your other rules, you can try adding this:

RewriteRule ^/question/([0-9]+)$ /?qid=$1 [L,QSA]