Hello,

Okay, im trying to write a working htacces mod_rewrite for the whmcs knowledgebase.

So i cannot modify the page code.. only htaccess so dont even suggest it.

anyway.

so far i have:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteRule ^knowledgebase$ knowledgebase.php
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/$ knowledgebase.php
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)-(.*)$ knowledgebase.php?action=displaycat&catid=$1
RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)-(.*)/([0-9]+)-(.*)$ knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&catid=$1&id=$2

and it all seems to work find up to:

RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([0-9]+)-(.*)/([0-9]+)-(.*)$ knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&catid=$1&id=$2

now from what i have read it is the (.*) wild cards which are screwing up the variables.

the format i am aiming for is:
/knowledgebase/1-This-is-cat-one/5-this-is-article-five/

But have it so it works with /1-ANYTHING/5-ANYTHING/

if that makes sense, so i know of need wildcards which wont affect the variables.

Any ideas because this is doing my head in lol

Dan

You could try ^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)-([0-9]+) (i preffer the id at the end)
And don't forget to add [L,NC] at the end of the rewrite rule.

Hope it works!

but wouldnt that still mess up the vars?

becuase i would end up with something like:

RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)-([0-9]+)/^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)-([0-9]+)$ knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&catid=$1&id=$2

so wouldnt it mess it all up?

Dan

I am a begginer with mod_rewrite but this is how i will do it:

RewriteRule ^knowledgebase/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)-([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+)-([0-9]+)\/$ knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&catid=$1&i d=$2 [L]

Here is an interesting guide, maybe it will help you : http://www.sitepoint.com/article/guide-url-rewriting

tried it it dont work

Dan

okay i did it in the end,

How would i go about having it without the ID numbers?

If it's not a very big website you could "manually" generate all the redirects.
I did that for a client and if work’s great.

i know i was readying something about having a text file which has like

friendlyname 12 (name and the ID)

but as it is for a knowledge base which has 137 articles, and they might chop n change categories etc i dont think it would work...

maybe having it dynamically generated some how? :s

Dan