quick help with htaccess...PLEASE!!!

I'm trying to rewrite my urls. Here is an example of one of my urls:

search-realestate.net/ca-city.php?realtor=Alameda

I tried using something like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z][a-z])-realtor_(.*)\.html$ /([a-z][a-z])-city.php?realtor=$1 [L]

I've tried a couple of different things and either I get a 403 error or a page cannot be found error.

I'm kind of lost right now trying to learn how to do this Please help me!!!!

 

I think that you need at least one RewriteCond in there, and your RewriteRule is slightly off - you need to use both of the patterns in brackets in your target URL.
You could try

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.search-realestate.net
RewriteRule ^([a-z][a-z])-realtor_(.*)\.html$ /$1-city.php?realtor=$2 [L]

I think that that should do it.

Hope it helps

John

 

What would that change the url to look like?

 

That would change static looking HTML URLs into dynamic PHP URLs, but the user ( and bot ) would still see the HTML URL, which I think is what you're trying to do.

If a user or bot requested

search-realestate.net/ca-realtor_Alameda.html​

then the page which would be served would be

search-realestate.net/ca-city.php?realtor=Alameda​

likewise

search-realestate.net/ny-realtor_Someoneelse.html​

would become

search-realestate.net/ny-city.php?realtor=Someoneelse​

You could also try only having 1 php script called city.php, rather than one per city which I guess you currently do from your original RewriteRule, then you could pass the city identifiers into the script as a parameter using this RewriteRule instead of the earlier one.

RewriteRule ^([a-z][a-z])-realtor_(.*)\.html$ /city.php?realtor=$2&city=$1[L]​

Hope this clears it up

John

 

Johnt, you've been very helpful thank you. As you advised I made one city page. Ok here is the issue... Here is a sample link:

/mls/city.php?realtor=Kuna&state=Idaho

I want the bots and users to see as: /realtor/Idaho/Kuna.htm

So basically: /realtor/state/city.htm

One more thing... When I link to this page would i link to it as:

/mls/city.php?realtor=Kuna&state=Idaho

or

/realtor/Idaho/Kuna.htm

I really appreciate your help!!!

 

I knew that I wasn't too stupid!!! After toying with a bunch of different rewrites I contacted my hosting company cause I knew that something had to be up. Anyhow, they don't allow rewrite configuration on there servers at this time. Thanks anyway johnt.