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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules Rewrite Rules with Query Strings

Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points
Posted by Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points

Rewrite messing up

When I go to localhost/shirt.php?id=108, it redirects to /localhost/shirts instead of localhost/shirts/108. Why? Below is my rewrite code

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php RewriteRule ^shirts/([0-9]+)/$ /shirts/shirt.php?id=$1 RewriteRule ^receipt.php$ /receipt/ [R=301] RewriteRule ^contact.php$ /contact/ [R=301] RewriteRule ^shirts.php$ /shirts/ [R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$ RewriteRule ^shirt.php$ /shirts/%1/? [R=301]

Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points
Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php RewriteRule ^shirts/([0-9]+)/$ /shirts/shirt.php?id=$1 RewriteRule ^receipt.php$ /receipt/ [R=301] RewriteRule ^contact.php$ /contact/ [R=301] RewriteRule ^shirts.php$ /shirts/ [R=301]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([0-9]+)$ RewriteRule ^shirt.php$ /shirts/%1/? [R=301]

2 Answers

Shivam Sadachar
Shivam Sadachar
8,109 Points
Shivam Sadachar
Shivam Sadachar
8,109 Points

I used your code in my .htaccess file and everything seemed fine. Just make sure each RewriteRule is on a seperate line in your text editor. Otherwise, your code worked great for me.

Do you still have any problems?

Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points
Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points

Yeah so I test it out some more and I found that problem has to be with the second line:

RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php

For some reason, whenever I change the test within the ^$, it works fine. For example

RewriteRule ^shirsdafdsfasts/$ /shirts/shirts.php <-This works.

This leads me to believe it has nothing to do with the .htaccess file

Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points
Zach Saul
Zach Saul
11,156 Points

To recap, whenever I use: RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php, it redirects me to localhost/shirts/shirts.php when it should keep me at localhost/shirts/.