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not sure if anyone else follows Noupe, they often have some useful articles and snippets. This one on mod rewrites explains it in some far simpler terms lol
http://www.noupe.com/php/10-mod_rewrite-rules-you-should-know.html
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| Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:26 am Post subject: |
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cool, still don't understand it all lol
in the pdf sheet they say:
Example: Nice looking URLs (no querystring)
# domain.com/category-name/ to domain.com/categories.php?name=category-name
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ categories.php?name=$1 [L]
is that right? Isn't the description of what it does the wrong way around?
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No that's right. You have to think how you want the domains to appear for users which is of the form domain.com/category-name/. So you would link to the category using that type of URL in your site code and you need mod_rewrite to seamlessly rewrite it so the actual php script does get called with the right query attached to it e.g. domain.com/categories.php?name=category-name
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| Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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yes, but they say to create nice looking URLs and then their comment describes from/to and they are the wrong way around?
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Their comment is right too, you in your code write the nice looking URL the rewrite rule is there to convert it back to the actual long form. So it does go nice url -> plain url.
I can see where your confusion is arising as you as the end user are looking to use a mod_rewrite solution to give your site nice looking short urls but in order for mod_rewrite to do that you have to give it the shorter urls to start with so it can convert them to the normal long version.
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okay, sort of makes sense lol
so in real terms you keep the plane url as they are now and this rewrite will show it differently in the browser as well as allowing them to use both formats if they typed it?
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| Z wrote: | | so in real terms you keep the plane url as they are now and this rewrite will show it differently in the browser as well as allowing them to use both formats if they typed it? |
Not really. In your site code you need to link to the shortened/nice/clean version of url. The mod_rewrite module then will intercept a request for this url and convert it to the longer/less clean url and Apache will serve the page from the converted address e.g. the real/less clean url. All this is done seamlessly so in the browser URL bar it still shows the clean/short URL.
Both forms of the URL will work, the short one because it gets rewritten to the long form and the long form because it's the actual real address of where the script resides.
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