.htaccess

would someone please help me out here.

I wish to do a rewrite rule that says any url that has the text '-article.html' then the following file should be executed : /prog2/prog

i came up with the following :

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^-article.html$ /prog2/prog [L,QSA]


its not working... when a file say with name : www.mydomain/a-file-article.html

is clicked... my browser comes HTTP 404 Not Found error.


would appreciate some help.

thanks

 

Right, don't worry, the solution is simple:

RewriteRule ^-article.html$ /prog2/prog [L,QSA]

Code (markup):

is not matching anything except the file "http://www.domain.tld/-article.html", because the "^" symbol signifies the start of the locator. Therefore, if any characters come between the / and the -article bits, then it is not matched.

Simply use

RewriteRule -article.html$ /prog2/prog [L,QSA]

Code (markup):

instead.

NB:

If, by inserting the [QSA] option, you hope to send /prog2/prog the filename, you're barking up the wrong tree. (Sorry, I'm beginning to sound really patronising now)

Use this:

RewriteRule ^([.*])-article.html$ /prog2/prog?q=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

I think that's right, anyway. :S

Good luck!

 

hi

thanks for your help... i tried your suggestions...but neither of your solutions work.

 

Damn! Just my luck...

Try this:

RewriteRule (.*)-article.html$ /prog2/prog.php?q=$1

Code (markup):

That will - I just tested it on my machine - DEFINITELY change "www.domain.tld/something-article.html" to "www.domain.tld/prog2/prog.php?q=something". However, it will do this server-side, and quietly, so the text in the location bar in your browser doesn't change, but the server does look for /prog2/prog.php and tells it that $_GET["q"] is "something".

If you want to visually check it works, use this line:

RewriteRule (.*)-article.html$ /prog2/prog.php?q=$1 [R=301]

Code (markup):

which sends a redirect code to the browser, letting the user know of the redirect.

 

:-( no luck.... must be my server.

i did a random rewrite... to make sure my rewrite function works :

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /prog.php [L,QSA]


(which i assume means.... if any url doesnt exist... execute prog.php) and it does work

 

It doesn't actually check if the url exists first - it'll rewrite it regardless - unless the two specified RewriteCond lines are still there. But you've got me there. It really does work on my local server. If

RewriteRule (.*)-article.html$ /prog2/prog.php?q=$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

doesn't work - as the ONLY line in the .htaccess file apart from RewriteEngine on - then I'm stumped. Try "something-article.html". I'm totally out of my depth here.

EDIT: As an afterthought, make sure /prog2/prog.php exists, or swap it with "/prog.php". Anything could be the problem, as far as I can see.

 

thanks WH.. i'll work on it.

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^a\-file\-article\.html$ prog2/prog [L]

Post the complete URL of how it originally is and how you want it, if it's more than one URL.

 

hi nintendo

tried your code but still not working...... I tried putting the rewrite both in the root directory (eg www.mydomain.com/.htaccess) and in the sub directory.... but no luck.

what it is, is that my program files are held in a sub directory :

www.mydomain.com/articles/

when someone enters the above url.. it lists the articles from my database.... the links are in the form :

www.mydomain.com/the-life-and-times-of-reginald-perin-article.html

the common feature is that EVERY link to the articles will have '-article.html' at the end.

i have a php program : www.mydomain.com/articles/displayarticle

which will parse the url and display the article.

so what i want is a mod rewrite rule to say that whenever a url that has the text '-article.html' in it is click, the php program is called and executed.

hope that makes sense

thanks for your help.

 

RewriteRule ^[^/]+\-article\.html$ /articles/displayarticle [L]

 

whitehathacker

can you advise where this rule in .htaccess file should go ? should it be in the root or the subdirectory ?

thanks

 

root, definitely

 

sorry mate, no luck. still not working.

 

Okay, try

RewriteRule -article\.html?$ /articles/displayarticle [L]

Code (markup):

 

well tried that..this time its not giving a page not found but sending all links to 'displayarticle' which then displays a piece of code i have written within "displayaricle" that says "file not found" (the script checks the database to see if that file exists, if not it will display a user friendly error saying no such article exists). That is done for ALL links... including if i enter www.mydomain.com

 

Is /articles/displayarticle the actual php URL? Normally it looks more like whatever.php?blah=

 

no thats the actual url. the php script is called "displayarticle".

so the url to that script is "www.mydomain.com/displayarticle"


its a script that takes the url and parses it..... so if you say :

www.mydomain.com/something-about-me-article.html

the script "displayarticle"....should be called.. it will take the url and parse it so it ends up with : 'something-about-me'

it will then search the database and find a match for that article and display it.

the script works 100% as I have tested it with the articles having the following links :

www.mydomain.com/articles/something-about-me-article.html


with .htaccess (in the directory /articles):

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /articles/displayarticle [L,QSA]



that will automatically call the script 'displayarticle' which will then obtain the rest of the file name within the script and make a match within the database and display the article.

however, i want it to be seo friendly so that google thinks the articles are called from a higher level.

may be i am being petty.... i dont know.

 

Unless you can add something unique to the script URL for every article, aka mydomain.com/displayarticle?whatever=article you'll never get it to work. There's no way for mydomain.com/displayarticle to tell apache what article you're geting.

All mod-rewrite does is lets you change existing URLs. The only URL you got for apache is mydomain.com/displayarticle

 

nintendo

but it works with this rewrite in the subdirectory:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /articles/displayarticle [L,QSA]


honest guv it does.

I will PM you the url so you can check it out yourself.

regards

M

 

nintendo

your comment :

There's no way for mydomain.com/displayarticle to tell apache what article you're geting.


I dont actually want to tell apache what article i am getting.. all i want it to do is to have a rewrite rule that says ANY link that has '-article.html' in the url, the program called /articles/displayarticle should be called. The program displayarticle will sort out what article it should be getting.