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Like on the title, I'm looking for a way to change a url with parameters (from this www.animevid.net/player/?anime=d/dmc to this www.animevid.net/player/anime/d/dmc) using the .htaccess file.

I've found many similar post but I've only got errors, loop redirect, or...nothing. The nearest thing i've got is this code :

RewriteRule ^player/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+) player/index.html?anime=$1&t=$2 [NC,L]

Also please note the "d/dmc" on "?anime=d/dmc", is a variable, another example is "c/codegeass", "s/sao" etc...

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  • You cannot "hide" parameters. Then they would be missing in your call. A URL is not a magical wand. Commented Aug 8, 2015 at 20:12
  • ok, really thanks, didn't know, post edited Commented Aug 8, 2015 at 20:13
  • Also note that www.animevid.net/player/?anime=d/dmc is not a valid url. Probably it will often work, since clients and servers try to be fault tolerant. But the / in the d/dmc must be encoded in a URL. This is probably your primary issue here. How do you want to catch the d/dmc with that pattern [0-9a-zA-Z_-]+? That cannot work... Commented Aug 8, 2015 at 20:29
  • I need the "x/xxx" cause inside player/index.html there's a script that change an iframe source path based on that variable, do you have any tips or you suggest me to leave this rewrite thing ? Thanks for your help anyway. Commented Aug 8, 2015 at 20:34
  • You miss understood that. Nothing speaks against handing over the / inside an argument. But it has to be escaped, otherwise it has another meaning. See the correct URL I posted in my answer below. What you receive on the server side (inside php for example) is the / you desire with such encoding. Commented Aug 8, 2015 at 20:36

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As mentioned above the final, rewritten url you give as an example is invalid. You should escape the last /: 

https://www.animevid.net/player/anime/d%2Fdmc

and rewrite to: 

https://www.animevid.net/player/?anime=d%2Fdmc

Then you have to change your regex strategy for this to work. Try something like that: 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^player/([^/]+)/([^/]+) player/index.html?anime=$1&t=$2 [NC,L]
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ok, i'll try that, but i was thinking; what if instead of a url with a single parameter, i had 2 parameter (d and dmc), so then i could fix the script of my iframe, would be it better/easier to achieve the url rewriting im looking for ?
Certainly that is possible, at least if you really can guarantee that that "twin parameter" always has that form. But why do you want to split a parameter in two? You have to urldecode() get parameters anyway inside a script.
This way i could use the "d" parameter or whatevere it is, for more things i could implement later

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