URL rewrite

[chrissparkle]

I have a url which looks like this: /f-search_results.cfm?type=online?page=1. I've been able to write a rewrite rule for it:

RewriteRule /search/singles-(.*)\.htm /f-search_results.cfm\?type=$1 [I,O]

this works for "type=online" part of it, but how do i modify the rule so that the "page=1" can be included in the rule?

Ideally I'd like the rewritten rule to look like:

/search/singles-online-1.htm - the 1 being the page number.

Can someone help me out there please..

 

[feherke]

Hi

/f-search_results.cfm?type=online[red]?[/red]page=1

I assume that the second question mark ( ? ) is just a typo.

RewriteRule /search/singles-([^-]*)-([0-9]*)\.htm /f-search_results.cfm?type=$1&page=$2 [I,O]

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[chrissparkle]

Sometimes the second URL parameter won't be there, is it possible to have this rule work so that it displays "/search/singles-online-1.htm" if the 2nd URL param is there, and "/search/singles-online.htm" if it is not?

 

[feherke]

Hi

RewriteRule /search/singles-([^-]*)(-([0-9]*))?\.htm /f-search_results.cfm?type=$1&page=$3 [I,O]

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[chrissparkle]

Thanks for this, but the below code:

RewriteRule /search/singles-([^-]*)(-([0-9]*))?\.htm /f-search_results.cfm\?type=$1&thepage=$2 [I,O]

thinks that the second URL variable is "-1" rather than just "1". It includes that hyphen in the variable?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Please analyze the two regular expressions with attention. I wrote [tt]$3[/tt], but you tried with [tt]$2[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[chrissparkle]

SOrry about that. I tried it exactly as you wrote, but neither "/search/singles-online.htm" or "/search/singles-online-1.htm" is working at all. None of these URLs seem to find the rewrite rule?

 

[chrissparkle]

It was actually more problem in my code than the rule sorry. Can I ask why the it is 3 instead of 2? And if i wanted to add a third possible url paramater, what would be the way?

 

[feherke]

Hi

Can I ask why the it is 3 instead of 2?

Yes, but at this point would be better for you to learn about regular expressions.

/search/singles-[red]([^-]*)[/red][green](-[/green][blue]([0-9]*)[/blue][green])[/green]/?\.htm
                 [red]\___/[/red]  [green]\_[/green][blue]\____/[/blue][green]/[/green]
                   [red]1[/red]      [green]2[/green] [blue]3[/blue]
                  
/f-search_results.cfm?type=[red]$1[/red]\&thepage=[blue]$3[/blue]

By the way, you do not have to escape the question mark ( ? ) in the replacement string. But I forgot the you have to escape the ampersand ( & ) because it means the entire matched string.

I suggest to read this short introduction, entire site, Perl improvement, doc with examples or just google for regular expressions.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/