help with apache rewrite rule

I need to be able to give users URLs that look like this...

http://www.domain.com/ABC123/page.php

....and have the apache rewrite engine change them to look like this...

http://www.domain.com/page.php?account=ABC123


I'm not really sure how to do this.


To further complicate matters, the users can also leave off the page
like this...

http://www.domain.com/ABC123/

....and should be redirected to...

http://www.domain.com/index.php?account=ABC123


Can anyone give me examples that show how to go about this?
Or at least point me at a resource that shows how to do these sort of
things?

Thanks in advance

William Krick wrote:
> I need to be able to give users URLs that look like this...
>
> http://www.domain.com/ABC123/page.php
>
> ....and have the apache rewrite engine change them to look like this...
>
> http://www.domain.com/page.php?account=ABC123

RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)/page.php$ /page.php?account=$1

>
>
> I'm not really sure how to do this.
>
>
> To further complicate matters, the users can also leave off the page
> like this...
>
> http://www.domain.com/ABC123/
>
> ....and should be redirected to...
>
> http://www.domain.com/index.php?account=ABC123

RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)/ /index.php?account=$1

>
>
> Can anyone give me examples that show how to go about this?
> Or at least point me at a resource that shows how to do these sort of
> things?
>

Visit http://httpd.apache.org/ and read up on RewriteRule for your
version of Apache. Learn that regular expressions are fun.

> Thanks in advance
>

Good luck,
Jim

Hmmm. I think that I didn't make my original example clear enough.
"page.php" can be *anything*.php.

I need to capture everything between the last slash and the ".php" and
put that into a variable too, like the account number.

I know a little of regular expressions from using AWK back in college.

Let's see how much I remember. Disecting the example you posted...

RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)/page.php$ /page.php?account=$1

^ means the beginning of the line
/ followed by a slash
( ) followed by *something*, $1 that is
[^/] one or more of anything that is NOT a slash
/ followed by a slash
page.php$ followed by page.php at the end of the line.

So tell me if this is what I need to handle...

http://www.domain.com/ABC123/foo.php

....where foo can be anything:

RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)/([^/]*).php$ /$1.php?account=$2


Am I close?

Am Thu, 11 May 2006 13:30:15 -0700 schrieb William Krick:

> Hmmm. I think that I didn't make my original example clear enough.
> "page.php" can be *anything*.php.
>
> I need to capture everything between the last slash and the ".php" and
> put that into a variable too, like the account number.
>
> I know a little of regular expressions from using AWK back in college.
>
> Let's see how much I remember. Disecting the example you posted...
>
> RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)/page.php$ /page.php?account=$1
>
> ^ means the beginning of the line
> / followed by a slash
> ( ) followed by *something*, $1 that is
> [^/] one or more of anything that is NOT a slash
* = zero or more of anything ....

> / followed by a slash
> page.php$ followed by page.php at the end of the line.
>
> So tell me if this is what I need to handle...
>
> http://www.domain.com/ABC123/foo.php
>
> ...where foo can be anything:
>
> RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)/([^/]*).php$ /$1.php?account=$2
>
>
> Am I close?

Yes, you are:

RewriteRule ^/([^/]*)/([^/]*).php$ /$2.php?account=$1

will do it.

Kind regards

Ulrich