anyone know how to do a simple url rewrite?

**vending_machine** · 01-17-2008, 09:51 PM

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule downloads/?dl_cat=([[:digit:]]+) /downloads/$1/ [R,L]

Assuming "name of download" in that example is 3? I think that ought to do it..

**SmokeyTheBear** · 01-17-2008, 10:31 PM

heh i think he wants the opposite of that ( se friendly urls )

BV · 01-17-2008, 10:32 PM

is this kindergarten?

**cezam** · 01-18-2008, 12:00 AM

Ok you need to do this:

Modify your script so that it takes name of the download as a parameter, eg:

/downloads/?dl_name=name_of_download

then, edit your .htaccess file:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule downloads/?dl_name=([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)$ /downloads/$1/

This should work.

**cezam** · 01-18-2008, 12:05 AM

sorry i screwed up, the htacces should be:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule  /downloads/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/$ downloads/?dl_name=$1

**Linguist** · 01-18-2008, 12:06 AM

Originally posted by xanx

All I want to do is change a URL that looks like this

/downloads/?dl_cat=3

to something like

/downloads/name-of-download/

I can't seem to get it to work

Use what everyone else said & dynamically add "name-of-download" as a part of url, so you'd have something like /downloads/3-name-of-download/. Take first # and forward that to /?dl_cat=3. If you're hell bent on that just having /name-of-download then you can do it in mysql and you'd have /?dl_cat=name-of-download and then you'd get id from the database. The first way is easier.

anyone know how to do a simple url rewrite?

anyone know how to do a simple url rewrite?

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