.htaccess rewrite rules for multiple parameters

Question

Rewriting the following 3 URLs

http://example.com/index.php?page=search to http://example.com/search

http://example.com/index.php?page=profile&value=myname to http://example.com/myname

http://example.com/index.php?page=stats&type=daily to http://example.com/stats/daily

Current .htaccess is written as the following:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)&value=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ index/%1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)&type=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ index/%1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ index/%1/? [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1&value=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1&type=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

I need to remove /index/ from the first and third URL, and /index/profile/ from the second one.

All comments & suggestions are welcomed.

Answer 1

Presumably these are 3 exceptions (special cases) to the current rules, so the existing rules should not change. (?)

Add the following "special cases" immediately after your RewriteBase directive, before your existing rules:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=(search)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=profile&value=(myname)
RewriteRule ^ /%1? [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=(stats)&type=(daily)
RewriteRule ^ /%1/%2? [R=302,L]

If you then need to internally rewrite these specific URLs back into the "real" parameterized versions then, at the end of your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^(search)$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(myname)$ /index.php?page=profile&value=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(stats)/(daily)$ /index.php?page=$1&type=$2 [L,QSA]

(I've removed the NC flag - add this back if you really need it.)

Answer 2

You can't have both the search and profile be the same regex pattern. For example, if someone requests:

http://example.com/index/foo

Are they trying to go to a page called "foo" or go to a profile of a user named "foo"? You need to add something that separates the two, maybe something like:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=profile&value=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ profile/%1? [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)&type=([^\s&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ page/%1/%2? [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.php\?page=([^\s&]+)(\ |$) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ page/%1? [R=302,L,NE]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=profile&value=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1&type=$2 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [NC,L,QSA]

This makes your urls look like:

http://example.com/profile/myname

http://example.com/page/search

http://example.com/page/stats/daily