htaccess / rewrite issues?

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gotham111 Reply #1, 16 years, 6 months ago

Currently fighting with htaccess to rewrite http://domain/product/category?tags=x to a more friendly http://domain/product/category/x

I have tried a number of different versions and nothing has worked but a page error. Below is the latest and greatest attempt.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^category/(.*)$ category?tags=$1 [L,NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Everett Reply #2, 16 years, 6 months ago

I think you’ll need to put the rules in a different order... and adjust them a bit... try this:

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^product/category/(.*)$ product/category?tags=$1 [L,QSA]

And I suspect you’ll need that "QSA" for "query string append"... really the authority here is the apache docs.

it’s a bit tricky to have this happen in one .htaccess file... if I were you I might try creating a dummy "category" directory with a dummy "category" file in there, and putting a separate .htaccess file in there, just to make sure that the rules from the main .htaccess file didn’t interfere...

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opengeek Reply #3, 16 years, 6 months ago

The better approach IMO is to use the OnPageNotFound event and attach a Plugin that checks the REQUEST_URI (I usually just explode them into segments) against whatever custom friendly URL patterns I am creating, set the appropriate REQUEST vars for the real page, and use $modx->sendForward(). See this post for an example.

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