.htaccess regex issue

Question

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,3})\/([0-9])\.html$  thread.php?board=$1&thread=$2

Here is my .htaccess file. Let me explain you how it should work:

website.com/vg/1337.html => website.com/thread.php?board=vg&thread=1337

in the other words:

website.com/x/y.html => website.com/thread.php?board=x&thread=y
x - 1-3 symbols, A-z, 0-9;
y - unlimited amount of symbols, 0-9;

It does look pretty simple, but... website.com/vg/1337.html just leads me to 404.

What am I doing wrong?

Mark Byers · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-02 21:23:26Z

4

Your regular expression only matches URLs that contain a single digit, for example "5.html".

To fix it change [0-9] to [0-9]+. The plus means "one or more of the previous token".

answered Oct 2, 2011 at 21:23

Mark Byers

844k202 gold badges1.6k silver badges1.5k bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

jancha · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-02 21:24:02Z

1

[0-9]* or [0-9]+

missing enumerator after [0-9]. if you don't put anything, it would work for one char only

answered Oct 2, 2011 at 21:24

jancha

4,9851 gold badge27 silver badges40 bronze badges

Fredrik Pihl · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-02 21:24:50Z

1

y is not "unlimited" in your example above, just allow one single digit. Add a star * after it (or a + for "1 or more").

answered Oct 2, 2011 at 21:24

Fredrik Pihl

45.9k7 gold badges89 silver badges133 bronze badges