Use .htaccess to hide .php and query name

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I have been searching all over google and stackoverflow, and have been finding a large number of answers but none seem to work for me.

Basically what I want is to rewrite my url localhost/index.php?page=1 to localhost/1, while still keeping the query alive.

Now, I have managed to remove the .php with the following code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

But removing the Query simply does not seem to work.

Please help me out.

Corbin · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-02 23:42:00Z

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Your rule doesn't match what you're trying to do. You're telling it to take 1 or more of anything and make it into blah.php (like http://localhost/blah -> http://localhost/blah.php).

You're looking for something like RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ index.php?page=$1 [NC,L].

By the way, your language is a bit backwards. You're not rewriting index.php?page=1 to localhost/1; you're rewriting localhost/1 to index.php?page=1 (well, really 1 to index.php?page=1).

edited Sep 2, 2013 at 23:42

answered Sep 2, 2013 at 23:27

Corbin

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Mitchel Jager Over a year ago

Thank you, however it is not yet working. I am receiving an 500 Internal Server Error.

Corbin Over a year ago

@MitchelJager check your Apache error log and see what it says. RewriteRules can be a bit of a bugger to get right without a bit of trial and error. Note that you'll still need the RewriteEngine On and RewriteCond lines.

Mitchel Jager Over a year ago

"RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters" Would be the error. I did still include the other two lines.

Mitchel Jager Over a year ago

It seems like [NC, L] has to be written as [NC,L] (No Space). This removes the error, but it does not do anything. By doing this all I'm getting is a 404 when going to localhost/1, while localhost/?page=1 still works.

Corbin Over a year ago

@MitchelJager was just about to say it's probably the space. Try putting a slash before the replacements: ^/(0-9]+)$ and /index.php?page=1

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