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Fraternal greetings StackOverflowers.. I list about 9,000 records on my little site. At the moment I'm showing them with a dynamic page, like http://domain.com/records.php?id=019031, but I'd like to start using meaningful URLs like this one on Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Library-Mythology-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199536325

where the title string on the root level gets ignored and requests are redirected to the records.php page, which accepts the ID as usual.

Does anybody know how I could achieve that with mod_rewrite? I'm wondering how I'd deal with requests to my other root-level pages, like http://domain.com/contact.php, that I don't want to redirect to the records page.

Thank you! Fred

apache url mod-rewrite redirect clean-urls

asked June 25, 2011 2:30 am CDT

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Try this in your root's .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^[^/]+/(\d+)$ records.php?id=$1 [QSA]

http://example.com/foo-bar/42 will be rewritten to http://example.com/records.php?id=42

It wont affect URLs like contact.php, since it does not match ^[^/]+/(\d+)$

answered June 25, 2011 3:23 am CDT

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