Simple mod rewrite issue, please help, my head is full

I hope someone can help me.

I have a simple mod rewrite issue but i can't get it to work.

if someone goes here -> www.google.com/see/thispage

I want to convert it to wwww.google.com/see/index.php?id=thispage so i can use some php to get the "thispage" variable.

my index.php file is sitting in www.google.com/see (so it's NOT in the root dir).

 

This one's not too hard. Put this in your .htaccess file and this should do it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^see/(.*)$ /see/index.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

Code (markup):

If you need more help with .htaccess and mod_rewrite, here's a good .htaccess and mod_rewrite reference.

 

Weird i'm still getting a 404 error... dunno what could be wrong the code looks logical.

 

2 questions:

• Is "see" a subdomain? If you're using see.yourdomain.com, then the .htacess would need to be in the "see" folder.
• If not a subdomain, what folder is your .htaccess in? That will affect your .htaccess commands.

 

1. it's not a subdomain, its a regular folder.
2. that is indeed a good one. the .htaccess was sitting in the /see folder, now i moved it to the root dir and i'm getting a 500 internal sever error.

 

Use ([^.]+).

 

Thanks Nintendo that one does it but i'm almost there now.

Now I get everything except the last character of the variable. For example www.google.com/see/thispage produces this wwww.google.com/see/index.php?id=thispag instead of this wwww.google.com/see/index.php?id=thispage

I'm reading now on how i can get it all, hopefully i can figure it out.

edit: got it --> ([^.*]+)

 

Good catch, .htaccess man!

 

(.*) is everything, so with

RewriteRule ^see/(.*)$ /see/index.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

even

see/index.php?id=whatever

whould make it go bonkers. To apache the original URL would also be a fake URL.