Simple Mod Rewrite - Has me confused

[mattmcl1]

Hi - I am trying to use modrewrite so that any URL of the format:

[mydomain.com...] (must end in .html only)

is rewritten to:

[mydomain.com...] (note no .html)

Here is the mod-rewrite I am using

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([a-zA-Z]+)\.html$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [%{HTTP_HOST}...] [R=301,L]

The problem that I am having is that $1 is passing the entire anything.html and not just anything

[jdMorgan]

You'll likely be happier with a simpler, internal rewrite:

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)\.html$ /buildpage.php?page=$1 [L]

More here: Changing dynamic to static URLs [webmasterworld.com].

Jim

[mattmcl1]

Jim,

Thanks a ton! Appreciate it!

On another note - I can't find any reference on using text functions within mod-rewrite (including the link you provided). For example, I want to pass only the second level domain from the {HTTP_HOST} variable. I have already made sure that all domains will start www but I can't find if I can use a function somewhere.

Thanks,
Matt

[jdMorgan]

You'll need to spend a bit of time studying two things:

Regular expressions (a text-pattern-matching 'language' used by mod_rewrite, PHP, PERL, etc.)

Mod_rewrite back-references (to re-use matched subpattern contents from old URL in the new URL)

For more information, see the documents cited in our forum charter [webmasterworld.com] and the tutorials in the Apache forum section of the WebmasterWorld library [webmasterworld.com].

Jim