So I’ve developed my own content management system powered by PHP and MySQL and each page is produced by pulling the content from the database on each visit. So far it works perfectly and to make things look a lot more refined I thought I’d tidy up the URLs using Apache’s mod_rewrite.
Anyway the problem is I just can’t get it to work, I know for a fact that Apache is configured properly because I managed to rewrite the URLs of static PHP pages.
The URL to access a page can be done in two ways, either providing the page ID or the page name, for example:
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=page-name-here
OR
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=2
After reading about a million tutorials and google search results I came up with the following .htaccess file which I’m pretty sure should work.
But it doesn’t, so my question is what am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Anyway the problem is I just can’t get it to work, I know for a fact that Apache is configured properly because I managed to rewrite the URLs of static PHP pages.
The URL to access a page can be done in two ways, either providing the page ID or the page name, for example:
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=page-name-here
OR
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=2
After reading about a million tutorials and google search results I came up with the following .htaccess file which I’m pretty sure should work.
Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ([A-Za-z0-9]+)$ /$1/ [R]
RewriteRule ([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]But it doesn’t, so my question is what am I doing wrong?
Thanks