.htaccess rewriteRule help

Question

I have a link in my index.html:

  href="my_page.php?cat=14&p=1";

Now, how can I rewrite this so that it looks like this:

 /my_page/14/1

I have this so far, but I don't know how to add the ending '/1' to this:

  RewriteRule ^kategori/([0-9_]+)$ browse_cat.php?cat_gr=$1 [NC]

Thanks

Answer 1

Have no apache installed here at home, but this should do the trick.

  RewriteRule ^kategori/([0-9_]+)(?:/(0-9]+))?$ browse_cat.php?cat_gr=$1&p=$2 [NC]

(?: ...)? makes the second part optional. So /kategori/14 as well as /kategori/14/1 should work.

If not, you'll need two rules

  RewriteRule ^kategori/([0-9_]+)$ browse_cat.php?cat_gr=$1 [NC]
  RewriteRule ^kategori/([0-9_]+)(?:/(0-9]+))?$ browse_cat.php?cat_gr=$1&p=$2 [NC]

Answer 2

ReWriteCond {%REQUEST_URI} ^/my_page/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)
ReWriteRule .* /my_page.php?cat=%1&p=%2 [NC,L]

This would only work if both cat and p at a minimum are specified.

Answer 3

RewriteRule ^/kategori/([0-9_]+)/([0-9]+)$ browse_cat.php?cat_gr=$1&p=$2

Your question is confusing because your initial example uses different file names than the sample regex you've posted.

Answer 4

If you’re actually using URLs like /my_page.php?cat=14&p=1 and want them to be “displayed” as /my_page/14/1, you will need two rules: One to redirect /my_page.php?cat=14&p=1 externally to /my_page/14/1 and one to rewrite /my_page/14/1 internally to /my_page.php?cat=14&p=1.

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET\ /my_page\.php\?
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^cat=([0-9]+)&p=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^my_page\.php$ /my_page/%1/%2 [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^my_page/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$ my_page.php?cat=$1&p=$2 [L]

Note that this rule does only work with this specific URL (number and order or parameters). A more general rule will get more complex; using a higher level language like PHP is probably easier in this case.

Furthermore, it would be better if you already use the “right” URL in your HTML documents rather than redirecting/rewriting every request twice.