Rewriting parameters to use slash - htaccess

July 13, 2016 5.5k views
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AdamUsering
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So on our site, we have dynamic pages which will fetch info on what is requested. For the sake of making sense, I’ll use our blog as an example.

So I have website.com/blog/article?id=4, which will fetch a certain article from the data base. After looking around for this answer, I couldn’t figure anything out. I want the url to look like website.com/blog/article/4. Using the help of Google, I came up with this:

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)$ article.php?id=$1

Since both blog and article are actual pages, I couldn’t have arguments for what page I want specifically. Any help on how to achieve this will be appreciated.

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MDS July 13, 2016

What you are looking for is called SEO friendly urls. I found few articles that should help you. :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26285463/creating-seo-friendly-urls-using-htaccess
http://webrewrite.com/url-rewriting-htaccess/

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  • AdamUsering August 2, 2016

    Okay so I mixed some resources from both articles, and am still getting errors.

    Here’s what I have for my .htaccess:
    Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^blog/article/([0-9]+)/?$ blog/article.php?id=$1 [NC,L]

    It’s in the /blog directory of themmagazines.com

    So when I go to https://themmagazines.com/blog/article/10, I want the page to deliver what https://themmagazines.com/blog/article?id=10 shows; not an error page.

    • MDS August 4, 2016

      Make sure .htaccess is enabled. In your Apache virtualhost file. By default this file is /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf. Add the code below to this file:

      # You may want to change the directory to the directory you have your .htaccess file.  
# But this should be fine.
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

      Now enable the apache rewrite module by running the command:

      sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

      Hope this resolves your issue!

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