Is there a way I can use PHP (and/or .htaccess) to rewrite the URL of a page.
For example if a user goes to www.mysite.com/french they are actually accessing the page which is www.mysite.com/index.php?lang=fr
But not a redirect.
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You want to use mod_rewrite and an .htaccess file to achieve this.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^french/(.*)$ /index.php?lang=fr [L,QSA]
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Yes, using Apache mod_rewrite and appropriate rules in an .htaccess file.
The docs on mod_rewrite are here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
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on the Apache site you can find several examples of URL rewriting flavors, by the way it's enough to use something like this in an .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^french(/|)$ /index.php?lang=fr [flag]
Where [flag] can be one of the following:
[PT]
[L,PT]
[QSA]
[L,QSA]
You may want to have a look at the PT (passthrough) flag docs or RewriteRule flags docs.
Also, pay attention to what your links are pointing to: in fact, the RewriteRule first argument is a regular expression that will be used to match the URLs to be rewritten. At the moment,
^french(/|)$
matches "french", right after the domain name,followed either by a slash (/) or nothing (that's the meaning of (/|) ); that is, it'll match www.mysite.com/french and www.mysite.com/french/ but nothing else. If you need to parse query string arguments, or subpaths, then you may need a more complex regex.
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gen_Eric
That's not what the
[PT] flag is used for. httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/flags.html#flag_pt
cHao
@Rocket: mod_rewrite is actually a URL-to-filename resolver. Whatever it rewrites stuff to is, by default, the end result.
[PT] is a bit of a hack to allow it to do URL-to-URL rewrites that then get passed back into Apache for further processing by modules like mod_alias. It does seem a bit out of place here, though.gen_Eric
@cHao: I know what
[PT] does. I was commenting that "stops Apache from redirecting to the page while silently loading it" doesn't really make sense.cHao
@Rocket: Yeah, i didn't get that either. I was semi wondering why i never see (or had a need to use)
[PT] in .htaccess files, but apparently it's always on at that point.
Paolo Stefan
@Michael I added some extra info, btw could you post the failing URLs?
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