Question

This is my third question about htaccess. I should’ve made one single. But I thought this would be too big of a question.

This is used for my own CMS. :o)

My htaccess is:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Remove index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

And what I would like to do is:

Remove /page/ from my URL, and just have for example: myurl.com/home

Right now my urls are: http://www.myurl.com/page/home or whatever title is given. Now, when people create new pages in the CMS, they maybe wan’t a page called: About us.
And what this will en up being is:

http://www.myurl.com/page/about%20us

How do I add “-” instead of %20?

Answer 1

You can easy remove page/ from the .htaccess, but you have to ignore existing files and directories:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]

Your second problem has nothing to do with .htaccess. You have to link the page About us as /about-us/ instead of /about%20us/ (%20 represents a space), and if the page /about-us/ (index.php?page=about-us) is called just handle it as /about%20us/. So simply replace spaces with -.