How to use mod_rewrite with Zend Framework?

Question

I've just deployed a new site using Zend Framework. Due to the popularity of my tutorials I'd like to redirect any request for a tutorial to the relevant page on the new site. So far this is what I've got:

URL before Rewrite: http://neranjara.org/tutorials/?tid=56

URL after Rewrite: http://neranjara.org/article/id/56

The .htaccess file I'm attempting to use looks like this:

  $ cat html/.htaccess
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteRule tutorials/\?tid=(.*)$ /article/id/$1 [R=301]
  RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|xml|phps)$ index.php

But this rule is not matching any URLs ... :'(

Does any one see a problem here?

Answer 1

The query string (the parameters passed to your file) won't be in the RewriteRule.

Taken from http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule:

The Pattern will not be matched against the query string. Instead, you must use a RewriteCond with the %{QUERY_STRING} variable. You can, however, create URLs in the substitution string, containing a query string part. Simply use a question mark inside the substitution string, to indicate that the following text should be re-injected into the query string. When you want to erase an existing query string, end the substitution string with just a question mark. To combine a new query string with an old one, use the [QSA] flag.

You have two possibilities here:

1. Remove your first RewriteRule and do the verification in your index.php instead before continuing to your framework. The initial query should be available in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] or something like that. So verify if it's tutorials, take the tid parameter and then go on with a redirection:

   header("Location: http://http://neranjara.org/article/id/$id");
   exit();
   

2. Use RewriteCond with %{QUERY_STRING} instead as stated in the Apache documentation. This solution is discussed in thread like this one.

// Edit:

Have a look at Chris' answer who was kind enough to detail the solution using QUERY_STRING. This is probably what you'll want to use. Thanks Chris.

Answer 2

Zend uses all the htaccess power that htaccess can deliver so theres a very handy(chainable and interesting and not very well documented) method to achive this in the bootstrap!

You must use the Zend Router in your bootstrap (index.php). Probably something like: (this would be foo.com/article/23

$router = $frontController->getRouter();

$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route( 'article/:id', array('id' => 1) ); $router->addRoute('article', $route);

More info here

Answer 3

Based on your previous entry:

  $ cat html/.htaccess
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteRule tutorials/\?tid=(.*)$ /article/id/$1 [R=301]
  RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|xml|phps)$ index.php

I'd suggest using this instead:

  $ cat html/.htaccess
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^tid=([^&]*)
  RewriteRule tutorials/ /article/id/%1 [R=301, L]

  RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|xml|phps)$ index.php [L]

BTW, this is just an example of the many things you could do using the QUERY_STRING variable in mod_rewrite. My vote goes to 'lpfavreau' since this is option #2 from their answer.