Help creating friendly URL

[chuckylefrek]

I was going to post this on my previous post on the subject but sitepoint displayed some message encouraging me to create a new thread so here it is

Basically I am using mod rewrite to rewrite a URL such as

http://www.mysite.com/viewDetails.php?id=5286

so I can type in

http://www.mysite.com/listings/friendlyURL

and it goes to the above.

I have added an extra field in my database for the friendlyURL

Here is my code

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^listings/([0-9]+)/?$ viewDetails.php?friendlyURL=$1

If I try the following:

http://www.mysite.com/listings/the-gurnards-head

I get the following error:

Not Found

The requested URL /listings/the-gurnards-head was not found on this server.

Any assistance much appreciated.

Thanks

Paul

[AndyJGreen]

Hi Paul,

The rewrite code you posted is wrong. Your using ([0-9]+) which means match any number of characters between 0-9, so a URL like this would work:

yoursite.com/listings/1-2-3-4-5

To do what you want with the example URL provided you need to use the [a-z] characters and you also need to add something to account for the hypen.

Lastly, your URL should end with a slash like so, otherwise you need to remove the last slash from the rewrite just before the question mark.

yoursite.com/listings/the-gurnards-head/

Give this one a try:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^listings/([-a-z]+)/?$ viewDetails.php?friendlyURL=$1

HTH

[chuckylefrek]

Hey Andy - that works a treat with both slash at the end and without the slash

Thank you very much indeed!

Cheers

Paul