I'm programming the new version of my website and I'm trying to get .htaccess to rewrite properly. My new site is stored here:
www.example.com/storage/new/
I need to rewrite these URLs:
www.example.com/storage/new/welcome/ -> index.php?action=welcome
www.example.com/storage/new/page/name/ -> index.php?action=page&url=name
www.example.com/storage/new/post/name/ -> index.php?action=post&url=name
This is my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/welcome/$ index.php?action=welcome [L]
RewriteRule ^/page/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?action=page&url=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/post/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ index.php?action=post&url=$1 [L]
It does not work, however; all results in a 404 Not Found. I've tried everything, even typing out www.example.com/storage/new/
in lieu of ^
. I have another .htaccess in the server root (www.example.com
) that looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I can't imagine how that would affect www.example.com/storage/new/
but you never know. Can anyone help me with this?
I had to e-mail my server's administrator for help and it turns out that .htaccess treats its own path as root; I simply removed the first /
before the ^
in each rule. My final .htaccess file looks like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^welcome/$ index.php?action=welcome [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/(.*)/$ index.php?action=page&url=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^post/(.*)/$ index.php?action=post&url=$1 [L,QSA]