clean urls - rewrite x.php?id=1 to x/1.html is easy enough

but how about coming the other way round?

[sabai]

On my shopping cart, I've re-written my product view pages to be friendly URLs....

product.php?product=213

using

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^product/(.*)\.html /product\.php\?product=$1

becomes

product/213.html

Now I'd like to use rewritecond so that if product.php?product=213 is requested, it redirects to product/213.html, but only if the request for product.php isn't a rewrite in the first place... I am sure this is possible. I hope I've explained this satisfactorily

The reason is to stop search engines listing the page twice...

thanks for any replies...

[Symbios]

bump

One of you guys must know how to do this, I'd like to know as well as Sabai

[Symbios]

I'd like to add to the question.

Instead of displaying;

product/213.html

Is there a way to use the rewrite to write the url as;

product/whatever-is-in-title-tag-213.html

[sabai]

RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ}!^true$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^product=(\d*)(.*)
RewriteRule ^product\.php.* /product/%2\.html\? [R]

I thought I could do something like this, but it doesn't work because IS_SUBREQ doesn't do what I hoped it might. I tried using HTTP_FORWARDED too without results. If anybody has any hint as to what to do I'd love to hear from you... There must be some way to stop it from infinate looping... anybody?

[sabai]

Well, there doesn't seem to be a mod rewrite solution... Putting this is product.php works, but I'd much rather have done it with mod rewrite.

if (! substr_count( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],"/product/" ) ) {
 header("Location: /product/$product_id.html");
 exit();
}

It seems like you can't use the mod rewrite equivalent...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!.*/product/.*

Anyobdy know why?

[closed]

You'd have to look at the code around it. If you had only the

RewriteEngine on

line, and then the line you mentioned, it would be valid. It wouldn't do anything, but you wouldn't get any error messages either.