mod rewrite not working, can anyone help

joey123 · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

Hello. I'm new to mod rewrites. I've looked at a ton of tutorials and examples online and can figure out how to set mine up.

Here is how i would like it to work: if the url in the browser is going anywhere but the web root ("www.domain.com" or "www.domain.com/") or any file ending in ".php" or ".html", it will send to "redirector.php", a file that will determine what other files to load.

so anything but the webroot and html and php files will be sent to "redirector.php".

here is what i have. it doesn't work. any ideas on fixing it. also, if there is a better way to get the final results that i'm after, i'm open to suggestions.

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteRule ^(.*)!(()|(.php)|(.html))(.*)$ redirector.php?var1=$1?var2=$2&var3=$3&var4=$4 [L]

also, will i need separate rules depending on the number of variables, or can i just have 1 rule assuming that there are 4, if there are less, it will just send black values for the rest (ie "www.domain.com/a/b/c/d" will go to "www.domain.com/redirector.php?var1=a&var2=b&var3=c&var4=d" and "www.domain.com/a" will go to "www.domain.com/redirector.php?var1=a&var2=&var3=&var4=" )

thanks,

joey

dcz

And welcome Very Happy

So, basically, you want to redirect URLs like :

example.com/var1/var2/var3/var4/ to example.com/redirector.php?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3&var4=$4

joey123 · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

thanks. that's what i was looking for.

i found an example online that was similar, but it didn't have this line:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

but it did have the lines above with the f and the d. what do these do?

also, doing it this way will never produce a 404 error. making search engines think that any url in my domain is valid. is this a bad thing? i was thinking that if i can't get a valid page from the info sent to redirector file that i would keep it from being indexed by search engines (<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX"> ). does this sound like a good idea?

thanks again for the help

dcz

joey123 · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

I didn't know you could do that. it makes sense though.

so just add this line as the last else in my test to find what page to load:

header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");

then:

include ("404page.php");

or

include("/template/header.php");
echo "Page Not Found";
include("/template/footer.php");

or something like that

thanks. that's a much better solution.

dcz

Exactely