Actually, it's not the reverse that I want to do.
Right now the pages on my site use this form of URL:
domain.com/articles.php?id=999
Now that I have upgraded my server to Apache 2, I'm going to use the
ForceType and FollowSymLinks options to change the entire site to use this
search-engine-friendly form of URL to access all pages:
domain.com/articles/999
But I don't want the old links to be broken once I change the site to this
new type of URL. So, if someone types in "domain.com/articles.php?id=999",
instead of getting a 404 error, I'd like to use the RewriteEngine to rewrite
that URL to the valid new URL format: domain.com/articles/999.
So, I thought this would work in my .htaccess file, but it doesn't:
RewriteRule articles\.php?id=([0-9]+) articles/$1 [R]
Do I have to escape the ? before id \? I tried it, but it didn't make a
difference. I also tried /articles... but that didn't work, either.
Monty
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Chvostek)
> Newsgroups: php.general
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:39:25 -0500
> To: Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: RewriteRule REGEX ?
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:18:36PM -0500, Monty wrote:
>>
>> From This: articles.php?id=999
>> To This: articles/999
> ...
>> What am I doing wrong??
>
> I suspect you may not be looking at the problem the right way.
>
> What exactly do you want to do?
>
> Normally, you'd go the other direction; that is, you'd have mod_rewrite
> recognize ^/articles/([0-9]+)$ and translate it to /articles.php?id=$1
> ... so that a request to the "pretty" URL gets served as an HTTP GET on
> the PHP script.
>
> I get the impression that you're expecting mod_rewrite to translate copy
> from inside your HTML files, as well as recognize and reverse the
> translation when the request comes back in. Is that it?
>
>> RewriteEngine on
>> RewriteRule ^articles\.php\?id=([0-9]+)$ articles/$1 [R]
>
>> But I keep getting a 404 error for articles.php, which means that something
>> must be wrong with my RewriteRule because it's not matching. I've tried
>> various tweaks and just can't get it to work.
>
> I bet if you create an "articles" directory in your documentroot, with
> with files named things like "999" in it, you'll stop seeing the 404's.
> Check your apache error_log.
>
> If what you're trying to achieve is to have existing HTML files get
> their embedded URLs translated, you're going to have to do that with an
> output filter. You can do it with PHP, or use mod_sed ... lots of
> options. But a rewrite rule won't change page content, it'll only
> rewrite the *requests* that come in.
>
> Of course, if you know all this already, and really are trying to point
> requests for /articles.php?id=123 to a file named "123" in the directory
> "articles", then you'll still need to inspect your error_log.
>
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