I would like to rewrite /anything.anyextension into /?post=anything.
eg:
/this-is-a-post.php into /?post=this-is-a-post or/this-is-a-post.html into /?post=this-is-a-post or even/this-is-a-post/ into /?post=this-is-a-postI tried
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(|/|\.[a-z]{3,4})$ ?$1 [L]
but it doesn't work.
Any help appreciated.
If you have access to the main server configuration, use this:
RewriteRule ^/(.+)\.\w+$ /?post=\1 [L]
If not, and you are forced to put this in a .htaccess file, you could try
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.\w+$ /?post=\1 [L]
In either case, this assumes you will only be rewriting URLs with a single path component (i.e. if you get a request like /path/anything.anyextension it might not work as you expect, the rewrite rule would need to be modified to handle that)
You need a better way to determine when to apply the rewrite rule, otherwise your page won't be able to display external JS or CSS, unless you define an exception.
SilverStripe (or the core, Sapphire) offers a good approach to this, something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.css)|(\.js)|(\.swf)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .+
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+) /?post=$1 [L,R=301]
This requires the URI not to be empty, not to be JS, CSS or SWF, and redirects back to your root directory:
http://localhost/this-is-a-post.php
http://localhost/?post=this-is-a-post
If you don't want a redirection, but the processing, remove the redirection rule R=301