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Asked: 2026-05-14T03:32:15+00:00

What I’m trying to achieve: 1) http://localhost/en/script.php?param1=random is mapped to http://localhost/script.php?param1=random&language=English This has to

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What I’m trying to achieve:

1) http://localhost/en/script.php?param1=random is mapped to http://localhost/script.php?param1=random&language=English

  • This has to work always.

2) http://localhost/en/random/text/here will be mapped to http://localhost/categories.php?term=random/text/here

  • This has to work if random/text/here is 404

What I have at the moment:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond substr(%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^en/(.+)$ categories.php?lang=English&terms=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ee/(.+)$ categories.php?lang=Estonian&terms=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^fi/(.+)$ categories.php?lang=Finnish&terms=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ru/(.+)$ categories.php?lang=Russian&terms=$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^en/(.*) $1?lang=English [QSA]
RewriteRule ^ee/(.*) $1?lang=Estonian [QSA]
RewriteRule ^ru/(.*) $1?lang=Russian [QSA]
RewriteRule ^fi/(.*) $1?lang=Finnish [QSA]

What is the problem:

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

It’s supposed to redirect to categories.php?lang=English IF /en/this/here/does/not/match/a/script. If I load an URL like en/index.php it will also get mapped to categories.php?lang=English because en/index.php does not exist.

What I’ve thought:

substr(%{REQUEST_FILENAME},3) would fix my problem (as currently /ee/index.php is literally mapped to /ee/index.php instead of just /index.php)

Unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to manipulate strings :/

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  1. Editorial Team

    I take it the language code is what makes the URL map to a non-existant file. Switch the two steps, moving the language code to the query string first. This also has the added advantage of simplifying the keyword step to a single RewriteRule, since they no longer need to do two things at once.

    RewriteRule ^en/(.*) $1?lang=English [QSA,DPI]
RewriteRule ^ee/(.*) $1?lang=Estonian [QSA,DPI]
RewriteRule ^ru/(.*) $1?lang=Russian [QSA,DPI]
RewriteRule ^fi/(.*) $1?lang=Finnish [QSA,DPI]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ categories.php?terms=$1 [L,QSA]
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