"Simple" mod_rewrite URL, is not re-written!

[klemme]

On my site when a link is clicked, the adress bar in the browser shows this URL:

http://www.enkelt-webdesign.dk/index.php?sid=1&titel=FORSIDE

I would lke the URL to appear like this:
http://www.enkelt-webdesign.dk/Forside

I have this code in my .htacess file which is not working as it is:

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
#Regler til index.php
RewriteRule ^Forside$ index.php?sid=1&titel=FORSIDE
</ifModule>

THIS IS ACTUALLY WORKING, WHEN THIS LINKED IS FOLLOWED - BUT THEN WHEN I CLICK ON THE LINK AFTER I HAVE ARRIVED TO THE PAGE, THEN I GET THE UGLY URL WITH THE QUERY STRING AGAIN. HOW CAN I KEEP THE PRETTIER URL WHEN THE ON SITE LINK IS CLICKED??

Isnt it correct to first specify the text/word, you want to replace with?

And just after write the entire line that you want stripped away from the URL?

In my case I want to change the entire query string, and replace it with a SEO friendly word for the user to see. (Well in this case: www.domain.dk/Forside)

What am I dong wrong?

My navigation is build like this:

function subject_navigation($connection){
$subjectset = mysqli_query($connection, "SELECT id, titel, linknavn FROM subjects ORDER BY pos ASC");
while($subject = mysqli_fetch_array($subjectset)){
$linknavn = $subject['linknavn'];
$linknavn = strip_tags($linknavn);
$sid = $subject['id'];
$subjectlinklabel = $subject['linknavn'];
// Class for aktivt link:
if(isset($_GET['sid']) && $sid==$_GET['sid']){
$active = 'class="aktivt_link"';	
} else {
$active = '';	
}
echo '<li>
<a href="index.php?sid=' .$sid . '&amp;titel='.$linknavn.'">' . $subjectlinklabel . '</a></li>';
	}
}

Should my $_GET be constructed differently than shown above? I mean whats "inside" of the a tag?

Regards, klemme

[pritaeas]

Change the echo on line 15 to output it the way you want.

<a href="/' . $linknavn . '?sid=' . $sid . '">' . $subjectlinklabel . '</a></li>';

[klemme]

This gave me a 404 error :-/

[klemme]

Well I am able to write directly into the URL, using "the pretty URL", and i get the right page, so thats great so far :-)

But I am not sure how I can "KEEP IT THERE", so when the link(Forside)-(build as shown in the top post) is clicked, I still only see domain.dk/Forside - It changes back to the query string, I wanted to get rid of. So it is not working when the navigation is used!

Bottom line, I can now write the pretty URL and get to the right page, but I cant keep the pretty url after a link is clicked.

How do I modify the mod_rewrite to accomplish that?

[pritaeas]

Your navigation should point to:

domain.dk/Forside
domain.dk/Referenz
domain.dk/Sitemap

and your htaccess will change it to index.php?titel=XXX without changing the address bar. Don't try to use it the other way around.

[klemme]

I just get 404 errors when I try to build the navigation that way :-/

I cant leave out index.php?

But I can put the title before the sid in the query string, but then I still need to cahnge the url, so that doesnt really change the situation, other than it is something else I need to change.

Or maybe i simply dont understand what you mean..

[pritaeas]

What is the sid for ? Does it really have to be in the url ?

Apart from that, on my site I use page as my index.php. every parameter I use comes after a slash. Using the htaccess you can tell apache to treat files without extensions as php files. you can see it in action on onderwaterwereld.org. I use two files there, page and library. Both are similar, just use different data and templates.

[klemme]

sid = id from the database, the entire site is a cms I have made, and sid is the unique id used for getting the right content for the different subjects.

In another table I have the pages for the submenu, which contains a subjectid = the id (sid) from the subjects table.

So i need these values to be able to run the site at all.

So I dont have any other files, apart from index.php? - which swaps out the content depending what sid (subjectid) or pid(pageid) is set.

So it is "simply the query string" I want to modify, depending on what sid is set..

Just dont get how to do it..

[pritaeas]

Since you need the sid, you may have to build your url's like

domain.dk/102/Forbide
domain.dk/182/Sitemap

and change the rewrite to capture both. Is that what you want ?

[klemme]

Yep something like that.

I wanted to strip the entire querystring - and then add a rewrite_rule that adds a custom/seo friendly word, relevant to the content of the page.

As it is now my urls is like this:

domainname.dk/sid=1&titel=FORSIDE

Is it not possible to change it to:

domainname.dk/Forside

And then behind the scenes, let apache read the top one, which works for database queries?

[pritaeas]

If Apache removes the sid from the url, you can no longer read it using GET, so it is lost.

[tiggsy]

.htaccess is supposed to be able to redirect without rewriting the url in the address bar, but I haven't been able to get it to work for probably 5 years. It used to work ok when I first started using it, but no longer. Might be a change in Apache...

[klemme]

Okay so I guess i can keep the sid there :-)

Do you guys know how I could make it look like this then:

domainname.dk/1/Forside

And then make apache read:

domainname.dk/index.php?sid=1&titel=Forside

So just remove the: index.php?
and move the varaibles, but only show the values?

[pritaeas]

RewriteRule ^(\d+)/(.*)$ index.php?sid=$1&titel=$2

[klemme]

Okay so i have this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(\d+)/(.*)$ index.php?sid=$1&titel=$2

based on this navigation:

<a href="index.php?sid=' .$sid . '&amp;titel='.$linknavn.'">' .$subjectlinklabel . '</a>

And it throws me an 500 error, my gooood :-/

[tiggsy]

If you're still trying, the way I got round this is to actually create a file with the relevant address, set the variables in it and have it include what I need.

e.g.

<?php
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
$script_root = "../";
include "../inc/settings.inc";
include "../inc/siteinfo.inc";
include "../inc/functions.inc";
$crop="broccoli";
include "./showcrop.inc";
?>