mod_rewrite Rule

[sjkted]

Hello All,

I am trying to set up a mod_rewrite rule that will accomplish the following:

http://www.domain.com/page_name.php

==>

http://www.domain.com/cmsindex.php?name=page_name

I have come up with:

rewriterule ^(.*)\.php

http://www.domain.com/cmsindex.php\?name$1

[L]

I have found that this does not work. When I change it to:


rewriterule ^(.*)\.html

http://www.domain.com/cmsindex.php\?name$1

[L]

it does work for

http://www.domain.com/page_name.html

==>

http://www.domain.com/cmsindex.php?name=page_name

Unfortunately, I cannot use the second option because my entire site has hyperlinks written to the .PHP extension. Could someone suggest how to get it working with .PHP?

Thanks,

sjkted

 

[elgrandeperro]

I think to prevent a loop, you need to add the ReWriteCond to restrict the rewrite.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/page_name.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://www.domain.com/cmsindex.php?name=page_name

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[sjkted]

Thanks for the quick response. In my example:

cmsindex.php?name=page_name

page_name is a variable

So, it could be

cmsindex.php?name=index
cmsindex.php?name=news
etc.

Thank you for the tip. I wasn't aware that this was how to break a loop condition. It seems that all I need at this point is how to change the RewriteCond line to accommodate the variable:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/page_name.php

Thanks,

sjkted

 

[elgrandeperro]

I believe if you wildcard it (like you sort of had) then you will affect ALL phps. If you can stick this in a subdir, then you won't have this problem (by adding as an .htaccess or adding the subdir in the RewriteCond.

So generically, this is to take the php name and pass as a variable:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.*)\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$

http://www.domain.com/cmsindex.php?name=$1

[L]

 

[sjkted]

Ok. I tried this with a few variants and I keep getting 500 server errors. It would be okay to move cmsindex.php to a test directory (which I also tested with the RewriteRule and RewriteCond) as it is the only PHP page that needs to be called on the entire site (with the exception of a few subdirectories).

sjkted