Need help with ReWrite, serious problem, thanks.

Right now I am using this

but I want to have

to take people to

with a space between the please and the help not a -

I really appriciate anyones help on this matter, thanks in advance

 

RewriteRule ^search/index.php?REQ=please help$ e-please-help.htm

(Not sure if it'll work!) It's either a ? or & that would make it not work, or maybe even the space. And you might need to add a / in there.

 

Before all the other RewriteRules, add

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^e-please-help.htm$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  /search/index.php?REQ=please\%20help [NE,L]

Code (markup):

Not tried it but I think that should do it. The %20 should correctly get translated to a space

hope it helps

John

 

Sorry about all the confusion, the term please help was just an example, i want any term to rewritten in that format, so could someone write what that would be, thanks in advance.

 

RewriteRule ^e-(.*).htm$ /search/index.php?REQ=$1

would work for both

/e-please-help.htm
and
/e-please help.htm

For anything where 'please help' is.

You just have to make the script link they way you want it, or link to it on a static page the way you want it linked.

 

The thing is, RewriteRule

will take people from /e-please%20help.htm to /search/index.php?REQ=please%20help

I want /e-please-help.htm to take people to /search/index.php?REQ=please%20help

I don't want to have %20 in the rewritten url.

Again, please note, please help is an example, I want it to work like this with anything.

thanks in advance

 

As far as I know, a space in a URL will always be changed by the browser to %20, regardless of whether its a static link, rewritten or whatever. That's just how a space is encoded in URLs.

However, your mod_rewrite is not redirecting the URLs, only rewriting them for internal use. So if someone type /e-please-help.htm into their browser's address bar, then that page name would stay in the address bar. They would never know that the actual page was /search/index.php?REQ=please%20help

What I'm trying to say is that no-one would ever see a URL with %20 in it, only your search script would receive it like that. By using urldecode() you can have your script turn it back into a proper string with spaces.

 

Yes, I understand that, but how would I go about making /e-word1-word2.htm rewrite the page /search/index.php?REQ=word1%20word2

thanks in advance

 

Ah, I think I understand now.
I think something like this will do it

RewriteRule ^e-(.*)-(.*).htm$ e-$1\%20$2 [NE,N]
RewriteRule ^e-(.*).htm$ /search/index.php?$1 [NE]

Code (markup):

That should recursively find all the "-"s after the first one and replace them with spaces. When there are no more, it should rewrite the whole lot to your search script.

I hope