HTACCESS URL Variable Rewrite

Question

Looking to rewrite a URL and can't seem to get it working.

Example URL:

http://www.example.com/find/agency.php?agency=33524&name=happy-example

Ideal, rewritten URL:

http://www.example.com/find/agency/happy-example

One of the many attempted rewrites:

RewriteRule ^/([.]+)/([.]+)$ agency.php?agency=$1&name=$2

RewriteRule ^/([.]+)/([.]+)/$ agency.php?agency=$1&name=$2

Even if the removal of the "agency=" variable isn't possible, I still can't seem to make this URL write out the variables - am I approaching the rewrite backwards?

Answer 1

Try using a rewrite condition to catch the query string before doing the rewrite.

For example something like:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^agency=33524&name=([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^find/agency.php$ find/agency/%1? [R=301]

Answer 2

There are several things wrong with your rule. However to get a URL like this.

http://www.example.com/find/33524/happy-example

You would need to use a rewrite like below.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^find/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /agency.php?agency=$1&name=$2 [L]

Answer 3

Use a lazy modifier for the symbol matching (currently ([.]+) will match everything )

RewriteRule ^/([.]+?)/([.]+?)$ agency.php?agency=$1&name=$2
RewriteRule ^/([.]+?)/([.]+?)/$ agency.php?agency=$1&name=$2

You can also combine these into one rule

RewriteRule ^/([.]+?)/([.]+?)[/]{0,1}$ agency.php?agency=$1&name=$2

This does not include whatever flags you would need depending on your particular case