Htaccess mod_rewrite help

Server Config
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I’m trying to create some redirects for my site. I would like to make ‘category.php?value=var’ into ‘/var’ and i don’t really know how to do it. It’s my first attempt at trying this type of thing and every attempt haven’t worked. Any help would be appreciated.

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what kind of redirects are you planning to do? maybe if it cause you a problem try to use php or javascript redirect?

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The most basic example to do that is


Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ category.php?value=$1 [L,R=301]
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This is what I am using and came up with. If there’s anything wrong could someone please let me know. Thank you.

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^upload/$ upload.php
RewriteRule ^([^/\\.]+)/?$ category.php?value=$1 [L]
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205,

I’m not sure why Rémon’s now incorporating the Options line (those directives should be done at the server level by your host) but he’s forgotten the :kaioken: EVERYTHING :kaioken: atom’s introduction of infinite (loopy) problems - in other words, (.*) will match everything (as well as nothing), thus it will certainly match category.php.

Since your question was how to redirect var to category.php?value=var, so long as you can specify var in a manner that will NOT match category.php (or other files), you should specify the allowable characters for var, i.e., ([a-z]+) for lowercase characters, etc. Actually, you get around this, too by use of your ([^/\.]+) but you should know that the dot character is NOT supposed to be escaped WITHIN A CHARACTER RANGE DEFINITION.

As has been true for several years (as attested to by this forum’s sticky threads, if nothing else), the mod_rewrite tutorial Article linked in my signature will provide all this and so much more.

Regards,

DK

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