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I'm currently trying to make a rewrite rule which will show http://mywebsite.com/login/ in the address bar, but actually read from http://mywebsite.com/index.php?action=login. I've tried the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9\-]+)/?$ /?$.php?page=$1 [L,NC] </IfModule>

The URL still shows up as http://mywebsite.com/index.php?action=login, though.

Basically, I want a SEO style links, I guess.

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  • You want to redirect only "home", "blogs" and "login"? Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 12:00
  • I want to redirect 'index', 'blogs', 'projects', 'contact', and 'login' - for now. Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 14:14

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Here's what you can use (static version):

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(index|blogs|projects|contact|login)/?$ index.php?action=$1 [L,NC]

As you can see, each "page" is hard-coded in the rule between the ().

You can also make it more "dynamic":

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9\-]+)/?$ index.php?action=$1 [L,NC]

This will automatically use any letters (I added dash and numbers - like index, contact or contact-us) and use it as "action". So in your script you can check if one of these is not accepted (for example someone type: not-a-good-page) then you can redirect to a 404. This way, your script controls the logic not the .htaccess.

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When I try to use $_GET['page']; it cannot find it when I try to load mysite.com/anything_here, is there a specific way I have to use it?
It should be: $_GET['action'], if you want to use page you can change the rule to: RewriteRule ^(index|blogs|projects|contact|login)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L,NC]
I changed them around but it still won't accept my page parameter.
I changed /?$.php?page=$1 from your rule to: index.php?action=$1 and then I get in PHP (when i print_r(_$GET)): Array ( [page] => login ) for http://www.domain.com/login. Do you have any other rules in your apache config?

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