I have stedily spent the past 3-4 weeks learning htaccess and mod-rewrites and everything about it. Reading writing Testing everything and im stumped on one problem. I have posted on many differnt forums, Even asked the creator of my graphics CMS, and my own server admin and no luck. I have redone my Code once again but only so i can try and finish up the last part of my Mod-Rewrite setup. So its very dynamic i believe but i will clean it up so it picks up less pages. # www.myspace-help.com/Backgrounds/?page=1 to # www.myspace-help.com/Backgrounds-1.php RewriteRule ^([^/]+)-(\d+)\.php$ $1/?page=$2 [L,NC] # www.myspace-help.com/Backgrounds/Saint_Patrics_Day/?page=1 to # www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-1.htm RewriteRule ^([^/]+)-([^/]+)-(\d+)\.htm$ $1/$2/?page=$3 [L,NC] # www.myspace-help.com/Background/view.php?cat=Saint_Patrics_Day&layout=19.gif to # www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.gif RewriteRule ^([^/]+)-([^/]+)-([^/]+)/?$ $1/view.php?cat=$2&layout=$3 [L,NC] Code (markup): The Problem i am having is with my last line. How can i make "www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.gif" become www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.html The problem i have is that i have many Image types. gif,jpg,and png The second Problem i am having with that last line is that It creates Duplicate Content. I have www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.gif and www.myspace-help.com/Background/view.php?cat=Saint_Patrics_Day&layout=19.gif But i can not figure out how to get anyone who goes to www.myspace-help.com/Background/view.php?cat=Saint_Patrics_Day&layout=19.gif to be 301'd to the new page www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.gif. The First two lines inside the CMS Script it has a 301 allready built in but the View.php Does not. And ive tried fooling with it and i cant do it threw the php so im trying to do it threw the htacess. I thought it would be simple.... If anyone goes to www.myspace-help.com/Background/view.php?(.*) 301 to the real page or even a index but i cant get that to work. So TLDR # www.myspace-help.com/Background/view.php?cat=Saint_Patrics_Day&layout=19.gif to # www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.gif RewriteRule ^([^/]+)-([^/]+)-([^/]+)/?$ $1/view.php?cat=$2&layout=$3 [L,NC] How can i make www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.gif into www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.html or even www.myspace-help.com/Background/Saint_Patrics_Day-19/ Keep in mind i have gif,jpg,and png files And how do i 301 www.myspace-help.com/Background/view.php?cat=Saint_Patrics_Day&layout=19.gif to www.myspace-help.com/Background-Saint_Patrics_Day-19.gif or even 301 it to www.Myspace-help.com I just dont want any of the view.php? Pages to be shown so i dont have duplicate content.
Also i have used so many dif Webtools, Read so many different Tutorials , and Even after idk how many hours spent learning and using the things i read, im still stumped!
Something like this should do the trick, nothing else is needed: RewriteRule /Background/view\.php\?cat=(\w+)&layout=(\d+)\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$ /Background-$1-$2.html [R=301,L] I think I got it right, but I haven't tested this. Keep in mind, this will match cat=....&layout=..., but it will not match layout=....&cat=..., so, depending on who/what generates the parameters, you might need to cover both cases and have two RewriteRules.