htaccess multiple directories and GET params
htaccess multiple directories and GET params
I'm developing a site in PHP and running it locally on my machine with MAMP for testing purposes. Right now I'm trying to clean up the URLs for the backend area(admin) to produce URLs like:
localhost/admin/products/read/1
This is my .htaccess in root:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %REQUEST_FILENAME !-d
RewriteCond %REQUEST_FILENAME !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC]
RewriteRule ^admin/products/read/([0-9]+)/?$ admin/products/read.php?id=$1 [NC]
I've also been trying this RewriteRule whilst removing the last line of the code above:
RewriteRule
RewriteRule ^admin/(products|users|companies)/(read|update|delete)/(.*)$ /$1?id=$2 [NC,L]
Folder structure:
htdocs
- admin
- products
- read.php
- update.php
- delete.php
- index.php
- users
- ...
- companies
- ...
index.php
Chrome and Safari are throwing 404 not found when trying URLs such as
localhost/admin/products/read/1
localhost/admin/products/read/1/
etc..
All help is appreciated!
Update 31/08/18
With MrWhite's help I scribbled together this, from his answer, to expand the scope in my .htaccess file:
.htaccess
RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)/(.*)/([0-9]+)/?$ admin/$1/$2.php?id=$3 [L]
Which got me thinking, could I keep the config file cleaner by just checking for the query ID and then rewrite?
ID
ID
read
update
delete
index
1 Answer
1
You've got your directives in the wrong order. You are also missing some L flags. And you need to make sure that MultiViews is not enabled.
L
MultiViews
Try the following instead:
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^admin/products/read/([0-9]+)/?$ admin/products/read.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %REQUEST_FILENAME !-d
RewriteCond %REQUEST_FILENAME !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [L]
By having the directives the other way round, it would be appending the .php extension to the URL-path and never matching your second directive.
.php
Also, once the directive has matched, you don't want processing to continue so you need the L (last) flag.
L
last
Your updated generalised directive looks OK. Although, with any regex, it is preferable to be as specific as possible. So, for example, if the second path segment should only be lowercase a-z, then change
(.*) to something like ([a-z]+).– MrWhite
Aug 31 at 0:31
(.*)
([a-z]+)
Thanks for the edit on my post, I will apply your input on any further Stackoverflow posts! I also updated my question since I want the RewriteRule to have a broader scope.
– Alex
Aug 31 at 0:52
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"could I keep the config file cleaner by just checking for the query
IDand then rewrite?" - Not quite sure what you mean? Only you know what URLs you are trying to catch. But if you are only rewriting a handful of URLs (eg.read,update,delete,index?) and they all follow the same pattern as above then you may not need the catch-all rewrite that follows?– MrWhite
Aug 31 at 0:41