mod rewrite problem

I am looking to change:

www.snowcommunity.com/wanaka/index.php
to
www.snowcommunity.com/location/index.php?loc=wanaka

I also want it to work for:
www.snowcommunity.com/whistler/
to
www.snowcommunity.com/location/index.php?loc=whistler

AND
www.snowcommunity.com/queenstown/another_folder/index.php
to
www.snowcommunity.com/location/another_folder/index.php?loc=queenstown

AND
www.snowcommunity.com/wanaka/another_folder/another/view.php?id=123
to
www.snowcommunity.com/location/another_folder/another/index.php?id=123&loc=wanaka

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So basically any subfolder of the root directory needs to be redirected to the location folder and loc=xxxx needs to be added to the end of the query string.

I've been able to do very simple mod rewrites, but not able to get them all to work. Here is what I have so far that works for the first example only:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ location/$2?loc=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

Thanks!

 

This code works:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^l/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ location/$2/$3/$4/$5?loc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^l/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ location/$2/$3/$4?loc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^l/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ location/$2/$3?loc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^l/(.*)/(.*)$ location/$2?loc=$1 [L]

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thing is I can't figure out how to make it rewrite like this:
snowcommunity.com/wanaka/index.php
it adds a directory 'l' like this:
snowcommunity.com/l/wanaka/index.php

I can't get it to not have the extra directory....Also is there a way to avoid having a rule for each level as they are all the same...

Thanks

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+).php$ location/$2.php?loc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+)/$ location/$2/index.php?loc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+)$ location/$2/index.php?loc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/$ location/index.php?loc=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)$ location/index.php?loc=$1 [L]

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this is partially working, but for some reason not for all urls.

WORKS FOR:

http://www.snowcommunity.com/wanaka/
http://www.snowcommunity.com/wanaka/activities/
http://www.snowcommunity.com/wanaka/activities/snowboarding.php

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ETC

DOEN'T WORK FOR:

http://www.snowcommunity.com/wanaka/free_classifieds/
http://www.snowcommunity.com/wanaka/contact_us/advertising/index.php

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ARGH i give up....need sleep...hope someone will take the time to help me out before I run out of hair to pull

 

I find it easier to have multiple .htaccess files (one in every directory if makes sense) with each .htaccess responsible for rewriting its own files

 

Try

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/location
RewriteRule ^(^\/+)/(.*)/index.php /location/$2/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]

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Hope it helps

johnt

 

Thanks for the input, It's all working fine now with one exception. Here's my code so far:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*)\.(com|co\.uk)
RewriteRule ^.*$     http://www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=permanent,L]

#RewriteCond    %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  -d
#RewriteRule    ^(.+[^/])$           /$1/  

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+).php$ location/$2.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+)/$ location/$2/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+)$ location/$2/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/$ location/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)$ location/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]

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What i need to do is convince any url without a trailing slash to add the trailing slash and then perform the mod rewrite (see the two commented out lines). The lack of a trailing slash doesn't effect the page that I am viewing, but does effect the links on the page that don't begin with a /

What I need it to do is add the slash, but not load the page, then perform the other rewrites. With the commented out lines it says that the page is not found because it tries to rewrite to the page that doesn't exist. (snowcommunity.com/wanaka/free_classifieds - the links on this page look like this: snowcommunity.com/wanaka/view.php but should look like: snowcommunity.com/wanaka/free_classifieds/view.php)

Is this possible?

Thanks!

 

You can use the [N] flag to force the rewrite procedure to start again using the the rewritten URL as the input.
You would need to be careful with your RewriteCond for this, as you don't want to start adding slashes to the end of files

 

what is this

 

i want to know about this

 

it is nice

 

This iz a message board. You type semi-intelligent posts once you learn about caps and periods/question marks.

Take the right exit on Exit 1337. Turn left two miles down until u get 2 Leet Preschool. You will learn all you need 2 learn there.

Oh yes. It is really nice to be in pre-school and learn about caps and periods/question marks. As a bones, tha might teach about som spalling.

 

Thanks for your continued input John. I've managed to hack together some code that works. I think i am starting to understand these pesky mod rewrites. The first RewriteRule adds a www if its missing. The second one appends a trailing slash if that was missing. All the others deal with the loc query string variable and making the url string look nice. I'm happy with it for now....I think the other changes I am thinking of can wait for a while.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*)\.(com|co\.uk)
RewriteRule ^.*$     http://www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=permanent,L]

RewriteCond    %{REQUEST_FILENAME}  !(.*)\.(php|html|htm)
RewriteRule    ^([a-zA-Z_\/]+[^/])$           %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=permanent,L]

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+)\.php$ location/$2.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+)/$ location/$2/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/([a-zA-Z_\/]+)$ location/$2/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)/$ location/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_][^\/]+)$ location/index.php?loc=$1 [L,QSA] 

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I've posted this code to help anyone that comes across this thread and for anyone to suggest a cleaner way of doing this.

CHEERS

 

haha I think he was drunk

errrrr don't you mean spelling?