Good 'ol mod rewrite help needed...

h0ly lag · 10-28-2008, 04:43 AM

Ok, first off anyone taking time to read this, thanks. Now what I've made is one of those URL shortening scripts. Like TinyURL. Anyhow, I want to be able to rewrite my URLs like they do.

The rewrited URL

Code:

domain.com/random-url

to my actual redirect page

that looks like

Code:

domain.com/redirect.php?url=random-url

It works great other wise. It's just not very clean and short anymore when you have redirect.php?url=bla-bla.

sketchMedia · 10-28-2008, 09:53 AM

This should work, admittedly Apache stuff isn't my strong point.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^random-url redirect.php?url=random-url

Hope that's what you wanted.

Salathe · 10-28-2008, 11:55 AM

It'll probably make more sense to use a regular expression to match short urls and throw them into the redirect page.

Code:

# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite to redirect.php
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]{4,7}$ redirect.php?url=$0 [NC,L]

Of course, the pattern might need changing to suit your own application as the one above might be a little too loose (or tight!) in what's allowed or not (alpha-numeric, underscore or dash between 4 and 7 in length (inclusive)).

h0ly lag · 11-01-2008, 05:52 AM

Thank you very much Salathe. Your help was invaluable.