Hi Nairalanders,
I am trying to rewrite these link using Apache mod_rewrite on WAMP

<a href="page.php?n=Ecommerce software&src=7" title="Premium Ecommerce Solution">Ecommerce Software</a>

I have enable mod_rewritr on the server and have change allowOveride None to allowOveride All

Here is my .htaccess file. I save it as .htaccess on the directory that has the file with the link.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^page/.*/([0-9]+)$ /page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L]

Or

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/$ page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L]

But it not working.

Please help me to get it right?

Thanks.

From the first rule:

RewriteRule ^page/.*/([0-9]+)$ /page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L]

It should be

RewriteRule ^page/(.*)/([0-9]+)$ /page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L ,QSA ] //I added QSA so that you can also pass GET variables

From the second rule:

RewriteRule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/$ page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L]

It should be

RewriteRule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+)/([0-9]+)/$ page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L] //I escaped it in case it is a special character

Btw, i would suggest, whiles generating the urls, you replace also spaces with +, remove non alphanumeric characters and tag the src id with a hyphen. Using a slash seems like it's a folder like structure.

Example: instead of page/economy/1 you do page/economy-1

you then use slashes to designate pages(i.e page 1, page 2 etc.)


Your choice though

Thank you Spikes C.
I copied your rule, save it and upload it. test it online and locally. But it did not work. Can PHP function affect it?

Hope your .htaccess looks like this

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+)/([0-9]+)/$ page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L,QSA]

Remove all codes in it and test with just the one above.
Then keep adding the others line by line (if you have any) till you jam the supposed error 500

Seems you already did. What's the error if i may ask?

And i hope you restarted WAMP when you enabled mod_rewrite

Thanks once more.
Actually there is no error message. But it did not rewrite the links even when i copied code below in your post. I restarted the Apache service.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^page/([a-zA-Z0-9\_\-]+)/([0-9]+)/$ page.php?n=$1&src=$2 [NC,L,QSA]

ewoooo

It doesn't redirect the links, it rewrites it internally

When you visit /page/economics/7

You'll see it working. That's the koko of the rule. Therefore it was working

afridigit: Thanks once more.
Actually there is no error message. But it did not rewrite the links even when i copied code below in your post. I restarted the Apache service.

hope u werent expecting apache to change the ugly url to the pretty one for u with just the .htaccess code up there?
You have to test with ur rewrited url and see if the page is served.
Again, did u confirm that ur .htaccess works cos last time i enabled it on wamp, after changing all the things u already changed in th httpdconf, i needed to also uncomment header modules and something else on that conf file before it started working. The question then is: are you getting the 500 internal server error?

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olyivy: hope u werent expecting apache to change the ugly url to the pretty one for u with just the .htaccess code up there?
You have to test with ur rewrited url and see if the page is served.
Again, did u confirm that ur .htaccess works cos last time i enabled it on wamp, after changing all the things u already changed in th httpdconf, i needed to also uncomment header modules and something else on that conf file before it started working. The question then is: are you getting the 500 internal server error?

Yes. .htaccess is working. because when i alter the code i will have 500 internal error. But right now i am not geting the 500 internal error.

I am new to Apache or have very little knowledge about it. But my focus is to change a url that look like www.mydomain.com/page.php?n=eccommerce-software&src=7
to somthing like www.mydomain.com/page/eccommerce-software/7 and just like the one we have on nairaland.

Any way you can mentor me to achieve it, please do even if it involve paying for the training. Thanks.

You have already done the job. After including that right code into your .htaccess
Visit the beutiful url, if it works, then your code works. Simple

Thank you guys very much. Finally i got what you mean. You guys are really gurus. I will still come back when i get choked. Great to have you.