Forum Moderators: phranque
I use the following rewriterule
RewriteRule ^article([0-9]+).([0-9]+)*.* article.php?article_id=$1&&pagenumber=$2 [L]
This translates internally from
www.exampledomain.com/articles/article2.3_some_keywords.html
to
www.exampledomain/articles/article.php?article_id=2&&pagenumber=3
That works great. Now, to get the shortest possible URL I want to remove the word 'article' from the friendly URL above so you'll get:
www.exampledomain.com/articles/2.3_some_keywords.html
I tried this rewriterule:
RewriteRule ^articles/([0-9]+).([0-9]+)*.* articles/article.php?article_id=$1&&pagenumber=$2 [L]
This doesn't work. I get a 404. Do you perhaps know what is wrong with this rewriterule?
Just a guess, but I assume you moved this code up one directory level from /articles/article/.htaccess to /articles/.htaccess. In that case, you'll need to leave 'articles' out of the substitution URL-path; Otherwise, the subdirectory /articles/articles won't be found, and you'll get a 404.
Also, check your error log and see what happened when you got the 404.
Jim
