Re: [tlug] [OT] Creating user-friendly URLS with mod_rewrite/Apache

["romans malinovskis" <romaninsh@example.com>]

> > So what I really want is for Apache and PHP to play nice together so
> > that it will take pretty much anything after the ".com", in the above
> > example where it says "kevin_cooney", and pass that to index.php to be
> > used for looking up data in the database and passing the right information.
> >
> > But wait, there's another issue here. On my "tokyocomedy.com" web site,
> > there is an actual subdirectory called "japanese", which is all about
> > the Japanese side of the comedy group, and all the HTML in there is
> > maintained by a different dude than me. So I'd want to make sure that
> > certain exceptions will go to the right directory.
> > The tricky part seems to be getting Apache to work without at least some
> > kind of "category" directory. After all, without that, what would I
> > specify in ".htaccess" in order to tell Apache where to take the link?
>
> Most of the popular CMSs use something like the following snippet in an
> .htaccess file (or right in the apache config). What it does is essentially say,
>
> If the requested URI matches a real file or directory, proceed as normal.  If
> not, call index.php (or whatever you set it to) which then needs to take care of
> the request one way or the other (for example send 404 if it's a missing image
> file)
>
>
> RewriteEngine On
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

I would use the following, which is straightforward:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule     ^(main.php.*)$           $1                  [L]
RewriteRule     ^([^\./]*(&.*)?)$        main.php?page=$1    [L]

put var_dump() into main.php to see what is actually passed and
experement with additional variables.

Url looks like this:

http://example.com/SomePage

adding .html at the end wouldn't make much change i think, just keep
links simple. Also if you are writing CMS or News site I would suggest
URLs in the following form:

http://example.com/283-Article_about_very_nice_linux_mailinglist.html

Search for mod_rewrite samples to get more ideas and just try one after another.

romans
http://grr.void.lv/cv