mod rewrite help please!

[jayskates]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on a pretty dynamic website... I'm trying to use htaccess to rewrite all the ugly urls into nice pretty ones!

I have the most basic rule working...

RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ index.php?p=$1

which is rewriting a url like

http://www.buschsystems.com/busch-new/index.php?p=Promotions

to

http://www.buschsystems.com/busch-new/Promitions.html

now here is where I'm stuck, I also want to rewrite url's that contain a second get variable,

Example:

http://www.buschsystems.com/busch-new/index.php?p=prod&name=Product-Name

or

http://www.buschsystems.com/busch-new/index.php?p=About&subPage=Testimonials

How can I write these to be

http://www.buschsystems.com/busch-new/prod/Product Name.html

or

http://www.buschsystems.com/busch-new/About/testimonials.html

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have a deadline to meet (today) and would love to not miss it haha.

Thank you in advance!

[wilderness]

recent thread nearly identical [webmasterworld.com]

There's also a recent thread which provided insight into second strings.

[jayskates]

Thanks for the reply wilderness, I check out that thread and it didn't really help me...

Another problem i'm having is trying to create different rules using mixes of the same variables. ie.

RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?p=$1&name=$2
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ index.php?p=$1&subPage=$2

When I do this, the rewrite's stop working all together.

Thanks!

[g1smd]

Never use multiple .* patterns.

The .* says put all the input in here. The second .* says after you have put "everything" into $1 put "everything" that follows in $2. How can "everything" be followed by "everything".

The .* is greedy, promiscuous and ambiguous.

Add the [L] flag to every rule.

Use

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/.]+)$ index.php?p=$1&name=$2 [L]

This rule will capture all URL requests like

example.com/something/something

If you have similar URLs that need different treatment the RegEx pattern must be adjusted to match the right requests. Perhaps some have a particular leading character or consist of a particular number of characters?

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