MOD_REWRITE dynamic urls issue

[klemme]

Hey,

I have all pages in my site, coming from the DB, and I get urls like this:

enkeltwebdesign/index.php?sid=1&titel=FORSIDE

The name of my site:

enkelt-webdesign.dk

Does someone know how to write the correct mod_rewrite, so I can change the urls to:

enkelt-webdesign.dk/forside (forside = home)
enkelt-webdesign.dk/webdesign (...)
etc etc

So I want to get rid of:
index.php?sid=1&titel=
And only pass this to the url: /forside

It is urgent, so I hope someone sees this as childs play, as I have never before made any regex related to Apache.

Thank you, I hope to hear from you

Regards, Klemme

[digwnews]

You must put it in .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
      RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?sid=1&titel=$1
      RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?sid=1&titel=$1

[klemme]

Thank you for your answer!

I have this in my .htacess file:
(The hosting company had some code there, which I dont know how to translate?)
But I didnt delete any of it just in case.

# -FrontPage-

# IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
RewriteEngine On
      RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?sid=1&titel=$1
      RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?sid=1&titel=$1

But nothing happens at all, the urls still look the same.

Any idea how this can be??

[digwnews]

When you enter in browser enkelt-webdesign.dk/forside, you're getting a 404 error?

[klemme]

I am currently tjecking it on my localhost, but I guess I should get the same error there?

But no errors, and no result yet.

I can try to upload it, and see if there is an error specified.

[klemme]

Just uploaded it to the real site, and nothing happens at all?

No errors either!

My host has got rewrite activated, so it should be able to run if correct!??

[klemme]

I misunderstud you before!

When i write:

enkelt-webdesign.dk/forside

It works!

BUT only for that one page.

I need to get exactly that urls after a LINK is clicked - cause when a linked is clicked, the ugly urls are right back? :-)

[digwnews]

You need to redirect?

[klemme]

Yeah I guess it is called redirect!

So when the link which is build like this, is clicked:

<a href="index.php?sid=' . $sid . '&amp;titel='.$linknavn.'">' . $subjectlinklabel . '</a>

it looks "ugly" in the url,

And I would like it so only this is seen in the url:

enkelt-webdesign.dk/forside
enkelt-webdesign.dk/seo
enkelt-webdesign.dk/hosting

so only the site name, and /forside

so leaving out(in bold): index.php?sid=1&titel=forside

etc etc

Thats is called a redirect?

Forgive me on this part.. :-)

[digwnews]

Also add in .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch ^index\.php\?sid=(.*)&titel=(.*)$ http://enkelt-webdesign.dk/$2

[klemme]

Okay so now i have the following - but it didnt change it though.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?sid=1&titel=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?sid=1&titel=$1
RedirectMatch ^index\.php\?sid=(.*)&titel=(.*)$ http://enkelt-webdesign.dk/$2

isnt there sometimees used something like

follow sys...?

[digwnews]

mmm...
You may use this in your php script:

header("location: http://enkelt-webdesign.dk/".$_GET['titel']);

And why do not you change all links on the site in http://enkelt-webdesign.dk/something style?

[klemme]

Well good question :-)

I can show you how I have build the navigation.

Everything is database driven: (And I dont know how else to make this work)

function general_navigation($connection){
$subjectset = mysqli_query($connection, "SELECT id, titel, linknavn FROM subjects ORDER BY pos ASC");
   while($subject = mysqli_fetch_array($subjectset)){
   $linknavn = $subject['linknavn'];
   $sid = $subject['id'];
   $subjectlinklabel = $subject['linknavn'];
 
echo '<br /><li><a href="index.php?sid=' . $sid . '&amp;titel='.$linknavn.'">' . $subjectlinklabel . '</a></li>';

I dont know how else to create the navigation, other than passing the id for identifying the row, and then use the title in the link/url?

So this is the reason that I need to do some mod_rewrite/redirect :-)

[digwnews]

try:

RdirectMatch 301 =(.*)$ http://enkelt-webdesign.dk/$1

[klemme]

I am not sure it is a redirect, is it?

When I want to get rid of the querystring, and only keep the title in the querystring?

Mod_rewrite (QUERYSTRING)... (just written correctly..)

?

[klemme]

I was shown this bit of code, and told that it could do what i am asking.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

And then I need to parse the $_SERVER

What and how could that be done, anyone knows how to pass the $_SERVER, to make the above mod_rewrite work?

I am helpless on this topic!