Mod Rewrite help needed!

[john278]

Hi,

I am using Mod Rewrite accoss the whole of my site and I was wondering if it would be possible to do something with the following rewriterule so that when I type in something like: http://www.simplysearch4it.com/a00000/1.html it would then go to the http://www.simplysearch4it.com/artic...00000&a=1.html

RewriteRule ^article/a(.*)/(.*).html article.php?b=$1&a=$2

Is there any way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.

[reminder]

RewriteRule a(.*?)html article.php?b=$1&a=$2

[ZXZX7]

Help me also please after John.
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Can anyone alter this for me to include use of www. as well as no www. and also see how the whole thing could be tidied up and written correctly but with exact same results:
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %1 !^www$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /%1\.php [R,QSA]
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Thanks to anyone who can help.

[stereofrog]

john278

(.*) is just too common for mod_rewrite. You have to be more specific in your expression, for example:

RewriteRule article/a([0-9]+)/([^.]+) article.php?b=$1&a=$2

[ZXZX7]

hello stereofrog
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Any chance on help with above please?

Thanks

[stereofrog]

Not sure what you're trying to do... maybe this?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule .* http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

[ZXZX7]

thanks
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to try and explain: if the hostname is "mysub" or "www.mysub" then a file called "mysub.php" is then pointed to by the .htaccess file, but I have to have it working with or without www. But if neither then index.php is pointed to.

[ZXZX7]

hello
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I tried what you said but with or without www. it points to index.php
I have wildcard enabled but no access to conf file. The original file works ok but with no www and I hashed it together and I am new to this so it must be written wrong.

[john278]

RewriteRule a(.*?)html article.php?b=$1&a=$2

Thanks for your help, but the above Rewriterule didn't work for my site as it just gave most of my site an Internal Server Error whenever I use the Rewriterule that you gave me.

I think is is because I have got quite a few more rules within the .htaccess file, which also starts with a.