Simple .htaccess rewrite for _get variable - .htaccess

I am working on a site that uses pages with _get variables for example you can get to www.thewebsite.com/users.php?uservar=username by just using www.thewebsite.com/users/username.
The issue I run into is when I also try to add in url rewrites that also cut off file extenuation so aboutus.php becomes about us.
Can I have these two functions in one .htaccess file?
I tried this but it did not seem to work well
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /user.php?page=$1 [L]

You can have both at the same time, but you need the routing rule (the one that targets user.php) to be below the rule that tries to re-attach the extension. So something like this:
# whatever rule you have to re-attach the extension:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php [L]
# now your user routing rule, make sure you add the condition:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+)/?$ /user.php?page=$1 [L]

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How to mod_write query param to path for arbitrarily long path?

I'm building a simple API with apache and I want to map /really/long/path/api/captions.php?caption_id=blah to /really/long/path/api/captions/blah. It's important to NOT have to specify a full path in the rewrite rule because I want this to work no matter where I deploy this code to. However, I can't find/figure out a working example of .htaccess rewrite rules that enable me to match based upon only the final part of the extension.
So, assuming that I have, say, captions.php in a dir called api, what .htaccess file do I need to include in api to accomplish this transform without having /really/long/path/ anywhere therein?
(I also want to be able to map /really/long/path/api/captions.php to /really/long/path/api/captions/ and /really/long/path/api/captions.)
I've tried all sorts of wildcard-like syntax; here's one of those non-working attempts:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?captions/(.*?)/?$ /captions.php?caption_id=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /captions\.php\?caption_id=([^\&\ ]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*?)/?captions\.php$ /captions/%1? [L,R=301]
Thanks!
Got there in the end. This is all that was needed:
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^captions/?$ captions.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^captions/(.*)/?$ captions.php?caption_id=$1 [NC,L]

Struggling with "clean urls"

After many hours of researching this site (and google) I've decided I need help with this problem I'm having. I'm using a snippet of code in my htaccess file that allows for a url to be accessed by either including the .php extension (like this www.mysite.com/about.php ), leaving the extension off completely with no slash (like this www.mysite.com/about ), or adding a slash at the end in place of the extension (like this www.mysite.com/about/ ).
So that part works beautifully. However it still shows the .php extension in the address bar after the page loads whether the user inputted it or not. So far I'm pretty happy with what it's doing as is, but I'd really just like to be able to hide the extension and even go so far as to put a slash at the end and for somereason nothing I'm doing is working in that respect. Hopefully some of this made sense.
I currently have this in my htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ http://mysite.com/test-server/$1.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://mysite.com/test-server/$1/ [R=301,L]
This is actually a bad approach SEO-wise because your content is accessible via multiple URLs. Either enforce extensions or don’t.
I prefer extension-less URLs as it for some bizarre reason I want to switch technology stack (i.e. to Rails) I’m not stuck with “.php” on the end of my URLs.
To achieve this, you can just rewrite requests for the extension-less request to a script with “.php” on the end. In your .htaccess file place the following:
RewriteEngine on
# redirect to extension-less URL if requested
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\s.+\.php\sHTTP/.+
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php $1 [R=301,L]
I also found this bit of code that works for me quite well at removing the extension, but I've only got it working at the root level so far. I'd like to be able to mod it for different directories within my test site since url structure is really important for this particular project. Nothing but errors when I do that though.
AddType text/x-component .htc
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# remove .php; use THE_REQUEST to prevent infinite loops
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ (.*)\.php\ HTTP
RewriteRule (.*)\.php$ $1 [R=301]
# remove index
RewriteRule (.*)/index$ $1/ [R=301]
# remove slash if not directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
RewriteRule (.*)/ $1 [R=301]
# add .php to access file, but don't redirect
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\.php [L]

Multiple rewrite conditions for multiple parameters

There is an issue with the htaccess rewrite conditions in my setup.
Currently I have the following code.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydom.com/$1.php
This works fine for any base page making them look like this.
http://mydom.com/page
What I want to also be able to do is add parameters from the url if they exist. I have some pages that will be like this.
http://mydom.com/page?param=1&secondParam=2
What I've tried to do is add this.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://mydom/$1/$2/$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ http://mydom/$1/$2 [L]
This made sense to me, because I thought if the condition didn't match, it would move on, but this gave me an internal server error.
What I ended up doing was setting up a separate rule for each page that could have multiple parameters like this.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^page/(.)/(.)$ http://mydom.com/page.php?param=$1&secondParam=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^page/(.*)$ http://mydom.com/page.php?param=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydom.com/$1.php
This works, however you need to keep in mind relative links you may have in your site such as style sheets and javascript files. In my case, I had to replace all relative paths with full site paths, depending on the way you set up your site, it could take a while to replace.

Do I need to call for .htaccess?

I have no experience with .htaccess, but I got a tip that it's very useful so I wanted to try this.
I now have a file called .htaccess, in my root folder.
The files contains this;
RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kellyvuijst\.nl [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.kellyvuijst.nl/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule (.*)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
What I'm trying to do here is create a 'www.mysite.com/portfolio/' instead of 'mysite.com/portfolio.html' I used some tutorials on this and I think it's correct, but I'm not sure.
So now I have this file, and what now? The tutorials all show what to put in the file but not what to do with it? Do I need to call for it in every .html page I have? And how do I call for it?
A .htaccess file is automatically invoked by the server.
You have just to put this into your file :
RewriteBase /
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule www.mysite.com/portfolio/ /mysite.com/portfolio.html [L]
Hmm, you're using a lot of rules here to achieve just that.
Anyway, no you don't have to include that file. If you're hosting your site on a server with Apache it'll be included automatically. Can you also run PHP files or is your site just HTML? That's always an easy sign if you're also using Apache (not 100%, but often the go together).
If so, you could try just using these rules first:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.(.+)\.(.+)$ [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1.%2/$1 [R=301,L]
If that always adds www to your address, even if you type in the URL without www at least you can be certain that it works.
Then, to make the .html disappear you can add this rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule $(.*)/$ /$1.html [L]
This should make every url that ends with a slash (like portfolio/) use a .html file instead (portfolio.html), but only if /portfolio/ isn't an actual directory on your website.
(I removed your url from the rules because this way it should also work if you use it on another website, or if you change your url. It should still do what you want)
Made sure the server is configured to allow htaccess files to override host options. So in your vhost/server config, you need:
AllowOverride All

mod_rewrite and .htaccess - stop rewrite if script/file exists

This is my htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
# Stop if it's a request to an existing file.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]
# Redirect all requests to the index page
RewriteRule ^([^/]) /index.php [L]
Now this forwards everything to my index.php script! It dosen't stop if a script exists. Anyone have any idea why this isn't working? I've looked everywhere, but I don't really understand mod_rewrite (as much as I thought!).
The problem has come about because I've put in <script> tags which point to .js files in my web directory which are then forwarded to the index.php script. The web developer toolbar tells me this. :) And clicking links to the js files in firefox's view source window also shows the index.php output.
thank you.
This is because after processing a rewrite rule the whole process restarts with the new url. The processing of an url can go thru the rules over and over again each time with the changed URL, until there is no more change (no applying rules found).
You need this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php [L]
Don't think of the rules as a program, they are rules which can overlap and must be as specific as possible with each one.
I guess you should add [OR] after the first condition like this:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1 [QSA,L]

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