URL Rewrite - Query String

Question

I have a news (blog) site that returns urls in the following format when individual posts are selected:

website.net/sitenews.php?q=posts/view/postname/12

I am seeking to rewrite the url so that it reads:

website.net/sitenews.php/posts/view/postname/12

or any other way where the ?q= is removed for purpose of removing the ? so that the url can be accessed by facebook's like button as the facebook url linter does not parse query strings.

In the htdocs .htaccess file in the root directory I have tried the following:

Options +FollowSymLinks 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} q=  

RewriteRule (.*) website.net/sitenews.php/$1? [R=301]

This successfully removes the q=? however the rest of the string (posts/view/postname/12) is not returned and the url now looks as follows:

 website.net/sitenews.php/sitenews.php

Does anyone have any suggestions to help me complete this url_rewrite?

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-10 19:27:59Z

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Try this instead in your .htaccess:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1/%1? [R=301,L,NE]

R=301 will redirect with https status 301
L will make last rule
NE is for no escaping query string

%1 is capture group for query string q= (whatever comes after q=)
$1 is your REQUEST_URI

edited Apr 10, 2011 at 19:27

answered Apr 9, 2011 at 18:24

anubhava

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Hamy Over a year ago

anubhava, the code above generates website.net/sitenews.php/posts/view/postname/12/posts/view/postname/12/posts/view/postname/12

anubhava Over a year ago

@Hamy: Sorry I had a minor typo in above rule which was causing infinite re-directions. Please see my edited answer above. I have tested it and it should work without problems.

Rajat Over a year ago

Thanks for your answer but how can I get rid of the .php as well in between the generated link website.net/sitenews.php/posts/view/posts ?

anubhava Over a year ago

@Rajat: Please check my answer here: stackoverflow.com/questions/6062537/… if that doesn't meet your requirements then pls create a new question on SO and send me the question link in comments here.

Niraj Chauhan · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-09 18:24:44Z

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If you are using any CMS, like wordpress, or joomla or SE, then you have option to do that else you need to have an .htaccess file where you can write the code, refer this links

http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/url-rewriting-examples-htaccess.html

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/2545.htm

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=htaccess+change+the+url&aq=0p&aqi=p-p1g4&aql=&oq=htaccess+&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=c875dd2b8adea15a

answered Apr 9, 2011 at 18:24

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