Question

So I have errors which are passed by the url, for example

index.php?error=nojs

will then be parsed by PHP to return an error message, for example: Please enable Javascript

I’m using the following line in my .htaccess to make the url easier to manage

RewriteRule ^ERROR_(.*)$ index.php/?error=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

It makes my URL look like this:
site.com/ERROR_nojs

The problem is, this only works for the root,

index.php?error=nojs        works fine however
test/index.php?error=nojs   does not?

So how can I convert the variable for every directory?

Thank you. (My original script handles hundreds of errors and filters out ones that might be useful to output to the user. It would be stupid to redirect them to the index just so they can see a small with an error message in it)

EDIT:

as Shai Mishali pointed out removing the ‘^’ before ERROR did the trick.

RewriteRule ERROR_(.*)$ index.php/?error=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

But I forgot to tell you I have another variable ?page=

I need get that vairbale and add it to the url in order for this to work..

e.g:

index.php?page=home&error=nojs
= site.com/home/ERROR_nojs

so

 www.site.com/?page=home&error=nojs   = www.site.com/home/ERROR_nojs

or

 www.site/?page=about&error=unknown  = www.site.com/about/ERROR_unknown

Answer 1

I’m pretty sure your problem is your rule is looking for something that starts with ERROR (the ^ sign) .

/ERROR starts with error, which works in your root , but
/tests/ERROR starts with tests , so it won’t recognize it.

Try removing the ^ sign and see what happens.

Shai.