im trying to make my site's dynamic url's search engine friendly But Im having a bit of a problem...

Here is what is in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(tutorials)/$ /tutorials.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(tutorials)$ /tutorials.php [L]
RewriteRule ^tutorials/(.*)/$ /tutorials.php?c=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tutorials/(.*)$ /tutorials.php?c=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^tutorials/(.*)/(.*)/$ /tutorials.php?c=$1&t=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^tutorials/(.*)/(.*)$ /tutorials.php?c=$1&t=$2 [L]

This are what I want it to do:

domain.com/tutorials.php >> domain.com/tutorial - this works
domain.com/tutorials.php?c=4 >> domain.com/tutorial/4 - this works
domain.com/tutorials.php?c=4&t=5 >> domain.com/tutorial/4/5 - this doesnt work

The one which doesnt work works fine when its not uring mod_rewrite therefore the coding must be right...
Any ideas?

Thanks

Please anyone?

In the pattern (.*) the . can stand for a forward slash. I'm guessing this is what has happened:

domain.com/tutorial/4/5/
$1 = "4/5"
$2 = ""
domain.com/tutorials.php?c=4/5&t=

Try something like:

RewriteRule ^tutorials/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /tutorials.php?c=$1&t=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^tutorials/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ /tutorials.php?c=$1&t=$2 [L]

which matches anything other than a forward slash. Alternatively, use a pattern which matches only a single digit.


Rufo

Nope that didnt work...

Im beginning to think that it could be a problem with my PHP code.

But it shouldnt be because using it the dynamic way works fine which means it must be getting the $t variable value therfore using the dynamic way its as if it cant get the value of $t

You could pass the two numbers to PHP as a string, then split them up using explode().

Its ok.. problame solved

See it working at www.devdreams.com

Nice to show here what you did to make it work,

ibbo

Oh rite sorry...
Well basically I changed the script itself so that when it accesses a tutorial it doesnt use the category variable at all....

So ive now got this for tutorial categories:

http://www.devdreams.com/tutorials/c/4
http://www.devdreams.com/tutorials/c/6

And this for the actual tutorials:

http://www.devdreams.com/tutorials/t/38
http://www.devdreams.com/tutorials/t/33