Changing URL's to look like index.php/argument1/argument2/et

Caldus

I am using a PHP MVC framework and it recommends using URL's of this style for your PHP configuration:
http://www.whatever.com/some_applica...ent2/argument3...
instead of:
http://www.whatever.com/some_applica...2&id=argument3...
Thanks!

Tom Chapman

Mmk.. Thats lovely...

Caldus

Umm ... OK?
I was asking a question ... how do I go about changing the URLs to look like that for my web server?

aprelium

Caldus,
We suggest reading http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/articles/urlrewriting-tutorial.html .

cmxflash

Caldus wrote
Umm ... OK?
I was asking a question ... how do I go about changing the URLs to look like that for my web server?

Actually, there isn't a single question mark in your first post, making it a statement rather than a question.
I'm not an expert on regular expressions, however I think redirecting /application/(.*)/(.*) to /application/index.php?$1&$2 should solve your problem.

pkSML

For more info about regex and rewriting, check out the documentation --> http://localhost:9999/doc/hosts-configuration.html#HOSTS-URLREWRITE
A word to the wise: you should begin the regular expression match with a caret. ^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)
The caret is another way of saying "begins with". Just the regex /index.php/(.*)/(.*) will match with /some_dir/sub_dir/index.php/243/ad
Another word of advice: If are three slashes in the URL regex, you will need to have three parameters in the user's request URL. Otherwise, it won't match. But if you just have ^/index.php/(.*) you could run into trouble. Know how many parameters the user's request URL will have.

Jokerham

Is there a way to allow multiple parameters, instead of making a redirection for all the parameter counts possible?
I mean can we have following conditions
^/index.php/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)
... and so forth ...
into a single condition?

admin

Jokerham wrote
Is there a way to allow multiple parameters, instead of making a redirection for all the parameter counts possible?
I mean can we have following conditions
^/index.php/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)
^/index.php/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)
... and so forth ...
into a single condition?

What would be the redirection target for all these rules? Can you provide some examples (original URL=> rewritten URL)?