Making a clean URL with php arguments in it

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So far, I have made my .htaccess to let me remove the ".php" extension, but that isn't enough for me. I want to be so that example.com/test?id=asdfjK could be able to be accessed as example.com/asdfjK. So that it accepts only the main php get argument in the URL (I don't know what to call them.

Here is my .htaccess file so far:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ index.php?page=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/$ index.php?page=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)$ /image.php?ID=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/$ /image.php?ID=$1

Does anyone that is on right now know about how to do this? I've read other questions, but the answers haven't helped me. — Adam S.
– Adam S., Commented Jan 20, 2014 at 6:30

Jon Lin · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-20 06:38:23Z

There's no way to differentiate between what gets sent to index.php and what gets sent to image.php. The patterns are identical, which means everything will match the first one and nothing will get routed to image.php. You've got to add something to the url so that you can match against it. Something like:

http://example.com/image/abcdefg123456

And that means the htaccess file would look something like:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^image/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ image.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]

Now when I go to my domain and use /image/sadfklj9 (random code), Chrome loads for a second or two then tells me it runs a redirect loop.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:03:46Z

The PHP arguments after the question mark are called the "query string".

Try something like this:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

This should redirect anything from:

http://example.com/abc123

To:

http://example.com/index.php?page=abc123

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