I need to rewrite sub.domainname.com/rewrite-string/abc/def/ to sub.domainname.com/index.php/dir/controller/?var1=abc&var2=def.
When user enter sub.domainname.com/rewrite-string/abc/def/ , browser will redirect to sub.domainname.com/index.php/dir/controller/?var1=abc&var2=def. I found this article and try but I can’t do that. Please some body help me!

hey thanks im fighting with so many shitty websites appeared first on google but they didn’t work and this worked very well. anyway we can avoid (RewriteBase /foo/) this or make it general ?

A very useful suggestion. Enjoyed (and was surprised by) the brief post as well. :) Thanks!

Heh, I’ve got rewrite rules all over my server to clean things up. My main one has 8 entries at the moment. A lot of times when I see unnecessarily ugly URLs I wish people would do this more. Clean URLs are nice.

You have to be careful with relative addresses, though. If you used an image located at “/img/me.jpg”, with the src set relatively to “img/me.jpg”, and your document was at,


/blog.php?name=example&year=2009


and it moves to,


/blog/2009/example/


The browser will go looking for it at,


/blog/2009/example/img/me.jpg


which will return 404 or something. It gets more complicated if the same document can be reached from different levels in the hierarchy.

There are two solutions. The hackish way is to rewrite the stuff to not be as relative: put in the root slash. The more elegant solution is the base tag, which goes in the head.

Nice tip. Just one addition for people who are not very familiar with .htaccess files; If you can place this in the Apache config instead (inside a Directory or DirectoryMatch section in httpd.conf, or another config file that’s included) you should. This is because if there is an .htaccess file, it is read every time a request is made, but if it’s in the config it’s only read once when the server is started.