使用.htaccess清理URL和可能的建议

Question

I have the following url:

http://mywebsite.com/somepage.php?product=343&type=4

I want the user to be able to type:

http://mywebsite.com/somepage?product=343&type=4

the role should handle pages in sub-directories and different file names (Not just Somepage or subdomain). For example:

http://mywebsite.com/subdomain/somepage.php?product=343&type=4

can be accessed by typing:

http://mywebsite.com/subdomain/somepage?product=343&type=4

I am also wondering if such links can be even cleaner?

Answer 1

This will take any request that doesn't point to a file or directory and append ".php" if the .php file exists.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]

This should solve the problem by only rewriting the request when the destination file exists.

Answer 2

I haven't tested this, but it might work.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^somepage(.*)$ somepage.php [QSA,L]

Answer 3

While the correct way is typically accepted as URL rewriting using .htaccess as @Nathan has shown, you can also optionally use MultiViews on a per-directory basis:

<Directory /home/www/sitename/htdocs>
Options + MultiViews
</Directory>

Multiviews, on 404 from an unknown file extension, will begin searching for a match in the filename. That is, if the URI is foo , it'll look for foo.* ; that said, it could potentially find foo.gif , foo.jpg , foo.html , etc., and will return the highest quality option.

If you're certain you could provide all your content on a unique-name basis (shouldn't be hard), then by all means use this. Then just change all your anchors to direct to somepage?product=343&type=4 instead of somepage.php?product=343&type=4

edit :

Yes, such links can be made even cleaner. Using URL rewriting, you could rewrite your URLs to:

somepage/product/343/type/4 or somepage/343/4

This is done by the appropriate (respective) regex:

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ $1.php?$2=$3&$4=$5 [L,QSA]

or

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ $1.php?product=$2&type=$3 [L,QSA]