Hi, I've got an .htaccess file which works great, but I need to add one more rule to it, which I haven't been able to do successfully. Here's the existing file:

RewriteEngine ON

##### Index Page Rules #####
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*).php index.php?tid=$1&pid=$2

The existing rule takes

mydomain.com/frontend/$1/$2.php

and points it to

mydomain.com/frontend/index.php?tid=$1&pid=$2

(The .htaccess file is located in the frontend directory.)

This works fine. But sometimes, there is no $pid passed... and this is the situation I need to account for.

In other words, when a user enters

mydomain.com/frontend/$1

I need it to point to

mydomain.com/frontend/index.php?tid=$1

Any help greatly appreciated

RewriteEngine ON

##### Index Page Rules #####
RewriteRule ^(.*)           index.php?tid=$1            [S=1]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*).php  index.php?tid=$1&pid=$2

Does that work? If the first rule matches, then the S flag tells the engine to skip the next rule.

It doesn't work, but I'm not sure why.... In trying to isolate the problem, all I really found out is that the $_GET['tid'] doesn't get passed. Also, I think possibly an extra slash is being added, in other words it's pointing to

mydomain.com/frontend/index.php/?tid=$1

but I'm not sure yet. I'll run some more tests. Thanks for your help.

Got it working

##### Index Page Rules #####
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$	index.php?tid=$1 [S=1]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*).php  index.php?tid=$1&pid=$2

It takes this:

mydomain.com/frontend/uname/

and points it to this:

mydomain.com/frontend/index.php?tid=uname

Thanks, Chroder, for turning me on to the [S=1], I never would have figured that out myself.

But I do have one more question (for anyone).... is it possible to rewrite the directory name? I like "frontend" because it's more descriptive for me, but "teachers" would be more descriptive for users...

so is it possible to make /frontend/uname/ appear as /teachers/uname/ ?