So I am in a bit of a soup here.
I need to make a friendly URL.
This is the URL where I enter the search values project_name and version
localhost:8080/demo_webpages_project/retrieval.html
This is where it takes me to on submitting the values
localhost:8080/demo_webpages_project/download.php?project_name=QT&version=3.1.2
I want the URL in the following form
localhost:8080/demo_webpages_project/download/QT/3.1.2
I tried doing this using .htaccess but not really finding a solution
The following is the code for the .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#Turn the engine on
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#attempt1
#RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ download.php?project_name=$1&version=$1
#RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ download.php?version=$1
#attempt2
#RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)$ download.php?project_name=$1&version=$2 [L,NC,QSA]
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ download.php?version=$1
</IfModule>
I would be really grateful if someone could help me out with this. This is the first time I am working on something on this and am lost.
Thanks
2
Answers
According to this article, you want a mod_rewrite (placed in an .htaccess file) rule that looks something like this:
And this maps requests from
to
Another possibility is doing it with forcetype, which forces anything down a particular path to use php to eval the content. So, in your .htaccess file, put the following:
And then the index.php can take action based on the $_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’] variable:
Have this .htaccess inside
/demo_webpages_project/
: