Routing from slug url using htaccess

Question

I'm currently writing a PHP application, and I have always used frameworks and always worked in larger projects, but for this particular project I am doing neither. I've hit an issue where if I go to:

http://localhost/project

It runs the index.php file fine, but if I wanted to go to

http://localhost/project/test

I'd still want it to run the index.php file, and work out what to do with the 'test' part from there. Instead I'm getting a 404. How do I go about this?

I'm using Apache as my server, is it something I need to change in the .htaccess file? I'm pretty new to editing that file and have found most tutorials haven't said how to do this, but it seems like a pretty integral thing

edit:

This is what my htaccess currently looks like

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
# Turn on the RewriteEngine
RewriteEngine On
#  Rules
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php

post your .htaccess file contents too

Ejaz
– Ejaz

2014-05-10 18:46:27 +00:00
Commented May 10, 2014 at 18:46 — Ejaz
– Ejaz, Commented May 10, 2014 at 18:46
No worries, I've edited the original post

Thomas Marchant
– Thomas Marchant

2014-05-10 18:51:40 +00:00
Commented May 10, 2014 at 18:51 — Thomas Marchant
– Thomas Marchant, Commented May 10, 2014 at 18:51

Marcin Nabiałek · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-10 18:54:31Z

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Try to change your .htaccess file into :

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*)(.*)/?$ index.php

as initial solution to check if it works

answered May 10, 2014 at 18:54

Marcin Nabiałek

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5 Comments

Thomas Marchant Over a year ago

Progress! This threw a 500 error instead of a 404. Doesn't seem to be hitting my index.php though

Marcin Nabiałek Over a year ago

So you should check your httpd.conf if mod_rewrite is enabled

Thomas Marchant Over a year ago

The online line I could find in the conf file was: LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so which was commented out. So I uncommented it and restart apache but it still didn't work. I saw something online about running a2enmod rewrite in the terminal, but it didn't work. It's worth mentioning I'm running on Windows not Unix

Marcin Nabiałek Over a year ago

Your comment above is possible not complete. In your httpd.cond you should have line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so without # as first character and if you change it you need to restart Apache server

Thomas Marchant Over a year ago

Okay I got it, I also had to set Options and AllowOverride in the <Directory> tags to All. Thanks a lot for the help!

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