php url rewriting in .htaccess

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I have tried all i could up to no avail, checked all web tutorials on url .htaccess rewriting, none solved all my problem exclusively, my programming experts help me with this, i have a php web application, the .htaccess code I have only manages url's without the .php extension, like localhost/app/images.php, the link is localhost/app/images, once you click on it, .htaccess understands /images is /images.php and fetches the document, but when i tried to put some more .htaccess code to rewrite some dynamic links like /images/miscellaneous where the right link should be

/images.php?album_id=miscellaneous

i get

internal server error

This is the .htaccess code i have now, it only matches /images to /images.php

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /ansjc
# Remove file extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) $1.php [L]
RewriteRule images/album_id/(.*)/ images.php?album_id=$1
RewriteRule images/album_id/(.*) images.php?album_id=$1

Sébastien Renauld · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-23 18:32:27Z

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Your rewrite rules have two major problems:

the order of them matters. Right now, your second and third will never match stuff
two of them could be simplified into one.

Consider using this:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteBase /ansjc
 # Remove file extension
 RewriteRule images/album_id/(.+)/?$ images.php?album_id=$1 [L]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule (.+) $1.php [L]

The [L] flag signifies "last". In other words, if it matches, nothing else will be processed in terms of rewrites. So, if images/album_id/etc/ gets matched, the second rewrite rule will not interfere.

This also solves the issue of the .php being appended to everything. Though I suspect your 500 might be from your code, not from rewrites.

answered May 23, 2013 at 18:32

Sébastien Renauld

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Nwachukwu A. Nnaemeka Over a year ago

This solution works but removes the stylesheets, and no data is displayed, i think i'm the one making the mistake, this is how my link starts: echo "<li class='album'><a href='images/$title'> so once the link is clicked, i want .htaccess to pass the variables to the page images.php?album_id=Miscellaneous

Sébastien Renauld Over a year ago

@NwachukwuAlNnaemeka: remember that images.php suddenly does not magically understand that it is now two directories down from where it used to be. IF your stylesheets and images are specified relatively (href="css/styles.css"), you'll need to adjust those to be absolute.

vee · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-23 18:48:46Z

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Use this code

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ $1.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ images.php?album_id=$1 [L]

and try

http://localhost/images
http://localhost/images/
http://localhost/images/album_id

it will call images.php and inside images.php just print_r($_GET); to test.

answered May 23, 2013 at 18:48

vee

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