URL Rewriting HTACCESS

Hi,
Try this :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /index.php

Regards

Hello,

Could you please explain what's happening in the script?

That script does not work.  It makes all my existing re-written urls go to the home page index.php.

this should work, haven't tested it, but its defenatly the right direction.

RewriteRule ^/page.php?category=([^&]+)[^=]=([^&]+)[^=]=([^&]+)$ /$1/$2/$3

It doesn't work.

I think I need to change the url to something like this

http://www.narmi.com/organisation/charity-services-1/the-team/john-smith.php

so the category 1 is in the new url after charity-services

How do I do that?

thy this: RewriteRule ^/page.php?category=([^&]+)[^=]=([^&]+)[^=]=([^&]+)[^=]=([^&]+)$ /organisation/$2/$1/$4-$3.php

post me the url you tried after and before the redirect so i can see what happend.

That still doesn't work.  I would like to get to

http://www.narmi.com/page.php?category=1&forename=john&surname=smith

by typing in

http://www.narmi.com/organisation/charity-law-1/the-team/john-smith.php

I have been doing it back to front :-( its easier this way round

RewriteRule ^organisation/[^0-9]([0-9])/the-team/([a-z])-([a-z]).php page.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3

Still doesn't work.  I have also tried this:

RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]+-([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+).php page.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3

whats the result, i cant find the mistake if i dont know the result?

It seems to give me the sitemap for my site without any css.  So it's almost like it is trying to find the physical path organisation/charity-law-1/the-team/

which is not what it should be doing.

I have another rule in the .htaccess file which redirects to the sitemap if the url typed is not found i.e.

ErrorDocument 404 /sitemap.php

I did the following as a test:

RewriteRule ^organisation/charity-law-1/the-team/john-smith.php page.php?category=1&forename=john&surname=smith [L]

and typed in the following url into the browser

http://www.narmi.com/organisation/charity-law-1/the-team/john-smith.php

and it gave me the correct page but with no formatting, i.e. no css...

you have to exclude the .css files from the rule before your rule

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^*.css
RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]*([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+).php page.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3

My css files are in the root along with page.php i.e.

www.narmi.com/page.php
www.narmi.com/style.css

So with this in mind, is the following correct?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^*.css
RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]+-([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+).php page.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3

I asked the above, because it gives me an internal server error message when I try to access any part of my site...

i think you dont need my conition because of your first one.

sorry it should have been: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*\.css

a very small mistake i pointed out before: RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]+([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+).php page.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3

NOT: [a-z-]+-([0-9]+)

I have made those changes which is now giving better results but still missing the css formatting on the page.

I have tried:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^.*\.css
RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]+([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+).php page.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3 [L]

and this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]+([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+).php pagey.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3 [L]

both do the same thing, i.e. correct page but no css formatting?

Typed URL = http://www.narmi.com/organisation/charity-law-123/the-team/john-smith.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.htm|\.php|\.html)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]+([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+)\.php pagey.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3 [L]

Changed to (showing full script)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.htm|\.php|\.html)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^organisation/[a-z-]+([0-9]+)/the-team/([a-z]+)-([a-z]+).php page.php?category=$1&forename=$2&surname=$3 [L]

But still giving same error as before, i.e. correct page but no css formatting.

css formatting works when I type

www.narmi.com/page.php?category=123&forename=john&surname=smith

but does not work if I do

http://www.narmi.com/organisation/charity-law-123/the-team/john-smith.php

you could also define aliases for images and css.

Ok, by adding a / before all images and css files in the html seems to have fixed the problem.  However, all links on that page no longer work.

For example, if I click home page, instead of going to http://www.narmi.com/index.php, goes to http://www.narmi.com/organisation/charity-law-1/index.php

How do I stop that from happening?