htaccess重定向使用mod_rewrite为seo友好的网址

Question

I'm trying to trim down my urls using htaccess having my index.php act as the key with the following code:

  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ index.php?city=$1 [NC]

To use this with my members area, do i just add the following to work on mysite.com/members/index.php?city=$1

      RewriteRule ^members/([^/]+)$ index.php?city=$1 [NC]

in the event of a city having multiple words, ie: new york city, whats the best way to approach this? defining it in the .htaccess (not sure if thats possible) to change new york city -> new-york-city or actually any space to a dash. Or, do it in php with a function to replace ' ' -> '-' for the db queries that use $_GET?

Answer 1

I would replace spaces with dashes in PHP and then redirect to the new version of the URL to get easily readable addresses. (Space is encoded as %20 which is not exactly easily readable)

That way you would still be able to enter the address domain.com/new york city but would be redirected to domain.com/new-york-city instead of domain.com/new%20york%20city .

The replace in .htaccess is possible with something like this:

RewriteRule ^([^\s]*)\s(.*) $1-$2 [N]

(Based on answer to Search and replace in apache htaccess a RewriteRule )