Need your help in rewriting rule of url to be friendly

[espi62]

I need your help how I can rewrite my website’s page url to be friendly from this:

http://www.kwatza.com/calendar/?action=details&eventId=16

to this:

http:// www.kwatza.com/calendar/details/16

If you notice that “action” is equals to “details” which is the third action variables in the calendar folder. There are three variables (in-order) written in switch method in the calendar/index.php file. Each variables represents each page and these are:

view-calendar
list-monthly-events
details

I was able to find answers on the first two (view-calendar & list-monthly-events) by the following scripts

RewriteRule ^calendar/([a-z-]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^calendar/([a-z-]+)/([0-9]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=$1&city_id&m=$2 [NC,L]

I tried this script for the third “action=details” but it did not worked. It would show blank.

RewriteRule ^calendar/([a-z-]+)/([0-9]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=$1&eventId=$2 [NC,L]

Please help how I can rewrite the rule correctly and thank you very much in advance.

espi62

[cpradio]

The problem you have is the following two rules use the same match. So you have conflicting rules.

RewriteRule ^calendar/([a-z-]+)/([0-9]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=$1&city_id&m=$2 [NC,L]

and
RewriteRule ^calendar/([a-z-]+)/([0-9]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=$1&eventId=$2 [NC,L]

Apache can’t determine which one to use, so it uses the first one it encounters. You need to find a way to separate them.

If details is the only one NOT working, I’d try this (as it makes the two match rules different):

RewriteRule ^calendar/([a-z-]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=$1 [NC,L] 
RewriteRule ^calendar/details/([0-9]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=details&eventId=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^calendar/([a-z-]+)/([0-9]+)$ calendar/index.php?action=$1&city_id&m=$2 [NC,L]

[espi62]

Wow! It worked. I have been looking for answers in days and you solved it in seconds

My biggest thanks!!!

espi62

[dklynn]

espi62

While cp is quite correct that you can’t repeat a regex and expect Apache to guess which of three options it’s supposed to respond to, there is a much better way to do this cleanly (but ONLY if the second key/value pair isn’t changed): replace ([a-z]+) with a list, i.e., (view-calendar|list-monthly-events|details).

Unfortunately, you’ve elected to change from a null second key for details to city_id (without a value) and m for list-monthly-events to eventId for view-calendar (or did I get those backward?). That will require the [a-z]+ to be specified in all cases (to distinguish between redirection options).

Additionally, NEVER use the No Case flag when matching {REQUEST_URI} strings as they ARE case sensitive!

Regards,

DK

[espi62]

My many thanks for sharing your knowledge…