How to remove part of a URL using .htaccess

Question

Hi, I have a url like this.

/domains/details.php (NOTE: domains is dynamic and can be anything)

How do I remove the domains part from the URL using .htaccess so the actual lookup is:

/details.php

OR it'll be cool if I can get domains into the URL. /details.php?page=domains

Thanks! Scott

Answer 1

you're going to need the rewrite engine in apache.

here's a good tutorial to get you started.

Answer 2

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/details.php$ /details.php?page=$1 [R=301]

Leave off the [R=301] if you want an internal redirect rather than an actual HTTP redirect.

To preserve existing query parameters you can change the rule to this:

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/details.php(.*)$ /details.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [R=301]

Answer 3

Please try to use the following rules to deal with your last request:

RewriteRule ^(?!domains/.*)([^/]+)/details.php$ domains/details.php?page=$1 [R=301,QSA]
RewriteRule ^domains/details.php$ details.php [NC,L]