I need to rewrite a url like test.php?type=$1&val=$2
type will always be a string where as val could be a number or a string. I came up with the following
test/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9|]+)/([0-9]+).html but as it was expected it will not work with something lke test/hello-world/23.html How can i included dashes in the expression?
You can escape them, so if you had
test/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-|]+)/([0-9]+).html
This seems more like a question about regular expressions to me. test/([a-zA-Z-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9|-]+)/([0-9]+).html should do. It's important to put the dash at the end of the character class.
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I'm trying to rewrite this:
http://www.domain.com/johns-wishlist-12
to this:
index.php?route=wishlist/shared_wishlist&id=12&name=johns
I've read some good tutorials, but none of them really explain how back references work (when using more than one)... I also don't understand when to use {QUERY_STRING}, as opposed to just back references?
Could use a little help... this is what I have for the above:
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]*)-wishlist-([0-9]*)/?$ index.php?route=wishlist/shared_wishlist&id=$1&name=$2 [L,QSA]
Obviously "johns" and "12" will change based on the user...
so should I be using a rewrite condition {QUERY_STRING} in this case? why?
The %{QUERY_STRING} variable is used to match against the request's query string. In your case, the request is for http://www.example.com/johns-wishlist-12, so there is no query string there. You are rewriting to a URI with a query string, though, so the only thing that matters is the next time around when the rules loop (which may not happen), if you had another rule that matched against the %{QUERY_STRING} variable, the query string that you created will show up there.
The $ something in your rule's target are backreferences to a "grouped" match in the rule's pattern. Whenever you have a () in your pattern, that groups the match which can then be backreferenced using a $. In the case of a condition, the backreferences are % instead.
I need an .htaccess mod_rewrite solution that will take a .cgi search query like this:
www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/finda/therapist.cgi?Therapy_Type=Pilates Training&City=Los Angeles&State=CA
and return matching results in the browser's address bar to look like this:
www.mydomain.com/therapists/Pilates-Training-Los-Angeles-CA.html
or better yet:
www.mydomain.com/therapists/pilates-training-los-angeles-ca.html
Notice the database includes values with one, two or three words + spaces...
For example:
Therapy_Type=Pilates Training <- includes a space
City=Los Angeles <- includes a space
State=CA <- no space
I used the tool at: http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/ to generate the following RewriteRule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^-]*)-([^-]*)-([^-]*)\.html$ /cgi-bin/finda/therapist.cgi?Therapy_Types=$1&City=$2&State=$3 [L]
This does work (finds the search matches) and generates the results page, but because the parameter values have spaces in them, we end up with a URL that looks like this:
www.mydomain.com/therapists/Pilates%20Training-Los%20Angeles-CA.html
I've spent days in this forum and others trying to find a solution to get rid of these %20 (encoded spaces) so the final returned URL will look like 1) or 2) above.
I know someone on here must know how to do this... Help ;-)
If you replace the %20 with -, then how would you know where the therapy type ends and the city starts?
pilates-training-los-angeles-ca
would be
type=pilates
city=training
state=los
So I don't think you like to replace the %20 by -. You could however replace it with another character, like _:
pilates_training-los_angeles-ca
You then would have to translate every _ to a space within your PHP script (or whatever language you are using server side).
I am trying to URL Rewrite to the following URL
Http://***.com/index.php?p=forum&mod=view_posts&page=$3&name=$2&id=$1
Http://***.com/forum/{id}-{name}/{page}
Http://***.com/forum/1-Hello-World/1
I have tryed the following code and have had no joy
RewriteRule ^forum/([^-]+)-([^&]+)/([^-]+)$ index.php?p=forum&mod=view_posts&page=$3&orderby=$2&id=$1
Thanks
That regex isn't very good: you see, the "([^&]+)" says: "one or more characters, up until the first ampersand", while you have no ampersands in the subject. Also, the "([^-]+)$" says "one or more characters before a hyphen", while you don't intend to end the subject with a hyphen.
Try this one:
^forum/([^-]+)-([^/]+)/(.+)$
But note that this actually captures any characters in the id and page positions, so you might be better off with
^forum/([0-9]+)-([^/]+)/([0-9]+)$
as that allows only numbers in those positions.
Also, you probably meant "index.php?p=forum&mod=view_posts&page=$3&name=$2&id=$1" instead of "index.php?p=forum&mod=view_posts&page=$3&orderby=$2&id=$1"
Example
www.domainname.com/page-param1-param2.html
...it will work fine but
www.domainname.com/page-param-1-param2.html
... here param one have the data like param-1 this time url is not working.
How do I get this to work?
Looks like you should use a different syntax, perhaps - there's no way to tell whether it should interpret the "1" as part of the first parameter or not. Alternatively, you could escape the - in "param-1" by encoding the - as "%2D" (no quotes).
So for example, your link would be: http://www.domainname.com/page-param%2D1-param2.html
I am using htaccess. I try to pass a value in url like 'C++'.
like "http://domain.com/Details/c++/detail.html"
I am retrieving the value in htaccess like
RewriteRule ^Details/([a-zA-Z_0-9_.,'&/-]+)/(([a-zA-Z_0-9_.,'&/-]+).html)$ index.php?page=$2&id=$1
But it returns only 'c'. Symbol '+' not accepted. I need the the value 'c++'.
Is there any solution?
Try Url encoding the + character.
"http://domain.com/Details/c%25%25/detail.html"
Is it possible to escape it, like http://domain.com/Details/c%25%25/detail.html. (I'm only guessing)
http://domain.com/Details/c%2B%2B/detail.html
A small consolation is: you are not alone. Since this problem is by design in URIs, eben big sites like Google have their problems with it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=c++
This does a search for just “c”.
Try it with the B flag:
RewriteRule ^Details/([a-zA-Z0-9_.,'&/-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_.,'&/-]+\.html)$ index.php?page=$2&id=$1 [B]