URL Mod Rewrite Help

I'm trying to rewrite a url from the following.

The URL looks like this www.site.com/page?name=Digital+Point+Forums

I want to change it to /directory/Digital-Point-Forums

I'm not sure how to do this. This is what I got so far. I can't figure out if it's possible or not to substitute the + for the hyphens.

RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*) page?name=$1 [L]

 

RewriteRule ^directory/([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)$ page?name=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5
RewriteRule ^directory/([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)$ page?name=$1+$2+$3+$4
RewriteRule ^directory/([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)$ page?name=$1+$2+$3
RewriteRule ^directory/([^-]+)-([^-]+)$ page?name=$1+$2
RewriteRule ^directory/(.*)$ page?name=$1

Code (markup):

That should catch each word with the hyphen (-), and send it out with a plus (+). It, as you can see, only supports up to 5 hyphens (catching each URL in turn). It's untested, but I'm sure you can use it as a base for something brilliant. Just my theory.

Jay

 

Thanks Jay.

That code isn't working for me. I'm playing around with it to get it to work.

I've been trying \w+ and other word combinations.

No luck yet though.


Thanks.

 

Ok. I got it working now.

I did three things.

1. I changed ([^-]+) to (.*) .

2. I took the /directory/ part out. I found that the first match would try to grab the directory part and I couldn't control it.

3. I had a previous line in my .htaccess file that was very similar. So I changed the file extension from .html to .htm.

This seems to work for me.

Thanks.