PHP how to redirect url path to index.php

Question

I currently have a website with URLs with this pattern

https://website.com/?p=something

where p is the requested page (like /?p=login)

for SEO reasons i want the URL to look like this

https://website.com/login/

Of course I could do a redirect like this

Redirect 301 /login/ https://website.com/?p=login

But it would change the URL displayed in the users browser back to the URL with parameters in it.

My question is, how can I have an URL like this https://website.com/login/ but in PHP inside the index.php I could access the requestet page or "path" like before like $page = $_GET['p'];. In other words I want to redirect the URL https://website.com/login/ to https://website.com/?p=login but having the URL still displayed as https://website.com/login/.

fwyh · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-22 21:47:03Z

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I'd suggest to use .htaccess file to point all requests to the server to one file for example index.php

# Rewrite Engine ON
RewriteEngine on

# Redirect everything to one file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

After that you can code a router to handle URI components.

For example someone call sitename/login

You detect /login and open the required page

answered Sep 22, 2017 at 21:47

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Leon K. Görges Over a year ago

is it possible to make an exception to that rule? eg. for /sidemap.xml ?

Leon K. Görges Over a year ago

I tried to add the following condition RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^sitemap.xml but it's still being redirected...

fwyh Over a year ago

This above is working only for paths without extensions, so no need to change it sitename/sitemap.xml will work aswell as sitemap/script.php.

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