how to use mod rewrite

Question

I have transferred my website from old server to shared server.

All my code is in "lfdata/main/com" under "public_html" on the shared server.

The clean URL would look like follows:

http://ip-address/~name/how

and the rewritten URL should be:

http://ip-address/~name/lfdata/main/com/how.php

So can anyone suggest a rewrite rule for creating above URL?

Answer 1

this will do your rewrite including query string params

RewriteRule ^~name/how(.*)$ ~name/lfdata/main/com/how.php$1

Answer 2

Try this rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/~[^/]+/lfdata/main/com/
RewriteRule ^(~[^/]+)/(.+) $1/lfdata/main/com/$2.php [L]

This will rewrite any request of /~name/foobar internally to /~name/lfdata/main/com/foobar.php.