Rewrite trouble

Server Config
1

I am having some rewrite trouble of an odd URL structure on my page. I’m trying to get some “seo” friendly links for an inventory section. Here is the type of link I am looking to transform:

blahh.com/detail/?numb=9795&yr=2012&make=NEWMAR&model=KING%20AIRE%204584

Basically I would like to rewrite it as

blahh.com/detail/9795/2012/NEWMAR/KING AIRE 4584 … you get the picture

Here is my .htaccess command which is not currently working. I’m sure I am doing something wrong here…

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteRule ^detail/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z]+)/([a-zA-Z]+)/$ detail/?numb=$1&yr=$2&make=$3&model=$4

By the way, this is through Wordpress. Any help would be much appreciated!

2

k9k,

I can see two things:

  1. You’ve not shown your test URI which I believe does not have a trailing /

  2. Your fourth atom does not accommodate the use of spaces in the model name (nor digits)

You might benefit from reading the mod_rewrite tutorial linked in my signature as it contains explanations and sample code. It’s helped may members and should help you, tYou might benefit from reading the mod_rewrite tutorial linked in my signature as it contains explanations and sample code. It’s helped may members and should help you, too.

Regards,

DK

3

I’ve read through your notes, but it still seems messed up. I even used a dot operator as the last regex match to capture everything. Here is my whole .htaccess (with Wordpress stuff included)


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

#Begin SEO Friendly URLs
Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteRule ^detail/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z]+)/([.]+)/$ detail/?numb=$1&yr=$2&make=$3&model=$4
4

kos,

Move your RewriteRule before the WP code (and REMOVE THE :kaioken: <IfModule> WRAPPER!)

Regards,

DK