Htaccess for dynamic urls

Hi everyone.

Sorry about this, but this is driving me crazy, I can't seem to get an htaccess rewrite rule to work.

I have a category page url page.php?MerchantCategory=Bras&Manufacturer=&OfferDescription=&sizes= and want to change it to page-X-X-X-X.htm but whatever I do it just doesn't seem to work.

My htaccess is as follows, the other rewrite rules work correctly.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^detail_([^\.]+)\.htm$ detail.php?recordID=$1
RewriteRule ^buy_([^\.]+)\.html$ out.php?recordID=$1
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)\.html$ designer.php?Manufacturer=$1
RewriteRule ^index_([0-9]+)_([0-9]+)\.htm$ index.php?pageNum_Recordset1=$1&totalRows_Recordset1=$2
RewriteRule ^cats-([^.]+)-([^.]+)-([^.]+)-([^.]+).htm$ page.php?MerchantCategory=$1&Manufacturer=$2&OfferDescription=$3&sizes=$4

I know the above is a bit of a mess, but I just want to get the structure working before I tidy up a bit

Many Thanks

Rob

 

Probaly a typo but...

But you are using

 

Yes, that was just the last in a long long line of edits and stuff to rey and get it working.

The latest is...

RewriteRule page-category-(.*)-manufacturer-(.*)-description-(.*)-sizes-(.*).htm$ page.php?merchantcategory=$1&manufacturer=$2&offerdescription=$3&sizes=$4

The url for the site is http://www.temptation-lingerie.co.uk

Rob

 

You not think that you defeating the object a little as you are still creating a very long unfriendly URL. Have you thought about / rather - might make it easier to follow and be more SEO...None of my biz anyhow
Try adding [R] flag to try and debugg which part is going wrong

 

I will shorten it later, I needed the long bit, as my brain is currently dribbling out of my ear as no matter what I do, it won't play ball.

 

Having a play with it as we speak....the code that is

 

RewriteRule page-category-(.+)-manufacturer-(.+)-description-(.+)-sizes-(.+).htm$ page.php?merchantcategory=$1&manufacturer=$2&offerdescription=$3&sizes=$4

Code (markup):

Is working for me so long as their is a var foreach ie.

<a href='page-category-1-manufacturer-2-description-3-sizes-4.htm'>1234

Code (markup):

 

Hmmm, the thought had crossed my mind as I was eating my jelly and ice cream (Sons birthday tea) that I don't have a value for each one.

So, is there any way round that?

Rob

 

this works for me

 

For some reason I get no producst but the page displays.

Original url

http://www.temptation-lingerie.co.uk/page.php?MerchantCategory=Non-underwired&Manufacturer=&OfferDescription=&sizes=

After the rewrite

http://www.temptation-lingerie.co.uk/page-category-Non-underwired-manufacturer--description--sizes-.htm

Rule

RewriteRule page-category-(.*)-manufacturer-(.*)-description-(.*)-sizes-(.*).htm$ page.php?merchantcategory=$1&manufacturer=$2&offerdescription=$3&sizes=$4

I might just compromise and change the lookups.

 

I take it that Non-underired should be one var becuase the rewrite rule will see it as Non being one var ude to the -

It may be handy to add this to the page to verify the information that should and is being posted

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_GET);
echo "</pre>";

Code (markup):

 

Yep, but I don't think thats the problem as I also tried with a single entry.

http://www.temptation-lingerie.co.uk/page-category-Bras-manufacturer--description--sizes-.htm

I was trying to be clever and save myself a bit of time in doing multiple mapge, should have known better.

Thanks for your help, I will change some of the code to strip down the refs. I know the other htaccess rules are working as the index paging works fine.

http://www.temptation-lingerie.co.uk/index_01_4503.htm

Rob