mod rewrite prob

Try

RewriteRule ^widgets/(.*)\.htm$ /solar.php?pg=$1&page=widgets

without the leading slash which is stripped off when the RewriteRule is used in directory context.

RewriteRule ^(red¦blue¦green)widgets/(.*)\.htm$ /solar.php?pg=$2&page=$1widgets

should work for all kinds of widgets.

Andreas

Thanks Andreas!

It worked!

Can you please help with with another problem:

I got a little braver & tried to rewrite
www.domain.com/widgets/page.htm?id=xyz

to be served by
www.domain.com/script.php?pg=page&cat=widgets&id=xyz

I used:
RewriteRule ^widgets/(.*)\.htm?id=(.*)$ /solar.php?pg=$1&cat=widgets&id=$2

It didn't work. id=xyz was not in the final query string.

Can this be done with mod rewrite?

Thanks!

Anyone got any ideas - sure would appreciate some help - thanks!

You cannot access the query string in a RewriteRule. You would need to use RewriteCond [httpd.apache.org] %{QUERY_STRING} for that. RewriteCond defines a condition. The following RewriteRule is only used if this condition is met and the rewrite rule itself matches.

Quite frequently you use RewriteCond not for the condition it allows you to specify but for gaining access to and matching certain parts of a whole lot of server variables.

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} id=([^&]+) 
RewriteRule ^widgets/(.*)\.htm$ /solar.php?pg=$1&cat=widgets&id=%1

RewriteCond takes the QUERY_STRING and tries to match 'id=' followed by one or more characters that are not &. Those characters are stored %1.

You will need an additional RewriteRule (like the one in my previous post) to handle cases where there is no 'id=' in the query string since you made that a condition by specifying the RewriteCond.

Andreas

Andreas

Thanks for your help!