Mod Rewrite - rewrite rule

Back to this stuff again

Just wondering if I wanted to extract 2 values from the URL

e.g.

Using the url domain.com/a/b/ typed into the browser I actually want it to call

domain.com/x.php?var1=a&var2=b

When I run my rewrite rule all I get is domain.com/x.php?var1=a/b/&var2=

Any ideas how to split it up?



My rewrite rule is;

 

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ /x.php?a=$1&b=$2 [L]

Try that

 

Thanks piniyini but still geting a=$1/$2

hmmm should there be anything else in between ^(.*)/ and (.*)$ ?

 

Problem is the first .* is too "greedy". But the fix is simple as pie

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.*)$ /x.php?a=$1&b=$2 [L]

Code (markup):

The "([^/]+)" will match (one or more) characters, up till it encounters a forward slash.

 

If the script is in the same directory as the .htaccess file, take off the / in /x.php. The RewriteBase line covers that.

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)/$ x.php?a=$1&b=$2 [L]

domain.com/whatever/whatever/ (Take out the / before $ if you don't want the / at the end of the URL.)

 

Thanks guys. Piniyini has been giving me a bit of a guided tour of mod rewrites and I've not been doing things completely the right way round. Words like "no! bad no no " and "smack" come to mind. I was trully made to feel like the grasshopper.

Thanks for your help Piniyini

 

Hehe ...just in case you haven't yet seen this, it's a pretty good resource to learn and copy practical techniques from:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

 

Thanks Willy.

Just skimmed over that and it looks like a pretty good resource

You guys have all been a lot of help with this stuff and I appreciate it. I suppose for you lot this query is pretty simple.

 

Now I have come across probably the simplest mod rewrite rules yet and cant seem to get it to work the way I want.

What I want to do is turn

domain.com/this-text

into

domain.com/page.php?a=this-text



This is my code so you can tell me how wrong I was

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule /(.*)$ page.php?a=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Code (markup):

 

I'd do

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$	page.php?a=$1

Code (markup):

Like I've said before I'm not an expert in this but can hack like the best of em till it works

 

I can usually hack them till they work as well but this rewrite stuff is really giving me a headache.

Thanks dct. I'll give it a try.

 

I think my problem is that when it's rewriting it keeps on rewriting.

What it seems to be doing is setting a to page.php so the URL is effectively

www.domain.com/page.php?a=page.php instead of ?a=this-text


Should I write a condition for page.php?

 

i think he's got it figured out

 

Yeah, it's fine. I just made a silly mistake heh

 

Once upon time there was mod rewrite and Weirfire,
A wedding and 4 threads later,
They all lived happily ever after.
The End (or is it)

 

There's never an end to Weirfires book... at least not till I'm 75

 

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ get-section.php?rewrite=$1 [L]

 

Would that not cause a recurrence on the rewrite rule as well?

 

*gulp* In mod_rewrite, I don't even know what a recurrence is!!

I think any URL on the site would point to get-section.php?rewrite=ANYTHING

So only if every URL on the site originally has get-section.php?rewrite= in it should that code be used! Adding a unique extionson can make it work if there are URLs you don't want changed.

 

The only reason I say is I've tried something similar to that before and I got get-section.php?rewrite=get-section.php

Because the rewrite rule looks for anything at the start it keeps rewriting the URL once it's rewritten. This is the way I see it anyway and is the reason I was asking if you could do write a condition to stop it looping if the URL was the format of the rewritten URL.