creating nice url but not with slashes

[mikek12004]

Almost for all thing I use my index.php with the value of 'page' as a criterion. However when I view my products which is something like this
www.mysite.com/index.php?page= 2&kwd=1.0096&de scription=Love to give&type=album
to be viewed
www.mysite.com+ album+1.0096+Lo ve to give

note that I do not have a problem with the slashes as seperators but then I have to change all the src's attributes of the images and I have read somewhere that woth anything else like '+' or ':' as a separator will work, is it true (in a working example with slashes tried to replace them in the .htaccess file with + and got object not found both when I commented the + and when not);
the is also the point of having in my description spaces, in an example of two with multiwork get worked ok, but read somewhere I have to pass them through urlencode() or something like that, is it necessery and changes this anything in the .htaccess file?

[TheServant]

The plus symbol in a htaccess statement means one or more of the preceding character/range. So you need to escape the symbol. I haven't ever tried to have + in my urls, so give it a go, but I suspect that's why it's not working. I hope that a simple "\" character will be enough, but you might have to play around with a {QUERY_STRING} condition??

[mikek12004]

tried but not working, anyone could give an example?

[Dormilich]

www.mysite.com+ album+1.0096+Lo ve to give

this doesn’t look like a good choice, since all seems to be part of the domain and I’m not sure, whether this has a query string at all…

www.mysite.com/album+1.0096+Love to give

at least should give you a query string to operate on

[mikek12004]

Didn't quite understand what you said, regardless the original url is
https://www.mysite.com/index.php?pag...scription=Love to give&type=album
and want to modify to nice url so that the user can type
www.mysite.com/album/Love to give
however with slashes as seperator since I have given relative directories to the images (which would be good to keep them aftear all I use a demo folder all the time) they get broken up, so read somewhere to use some other symbol as the + or : ,that is the one thing. The other was my consern about the description variable having symbols like space, question marks etc. will it be a problem and if so how to handle it?

[Dormilich]

The other was my consern about the description variable having symbols like space, question marks etc. will it be a problem and if so how to handle it?

usually a browser escapes invalid characters before sending the request. (? is a valid character, see RFC 1738 for more info)

[mikek12004]

and about the issues with the slashes? Would you used it even if it screws your relative directory in the images or would you use some other symbol (+, - , : etc. )?

[Dormilich]

what issue? if mod_rewrite works as expected, the server is not requested of invalid directories.

[mikek12004]

suppose we have an www.aaa.com/index.php?id=1&user=mike which has an image with src='img/a1.jpg'
when I used htmod so that that url works www.aaa.com/1/mike the image appeared broken, read somewhere that this is because of the URL being like this and a possible solution if I didn't want to use absolute paths would be to replace the '/' with another symbol. Tried the www.aaa.com/1+mike
(with the '+' escaped and not) in the rewrite rule but always got 'not found' when return to the slashes the htaccess worked fine

[Dormilich]

when I used htmod so that that url works www.aaa.com/1/mike the image appeared broken,

then you need an additional filter for the image urls.

the rule I use…

	# remove the fake directories for internal files (CSS, JS)
	RewriteRule ^\w+/(.+)$ $1 [NC]

[mikek12004]

So in my htaccess would look like this

RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
# Handle product requests 
    RewriteRule ^products/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [L] 
# remove the fake directories for internal files (CSS, JS) 
    RewriteRule ^\w+/(.+)$ $1 [NC]

right?

[Dormilich]

not sure if it works for you, since you have to go 2 directories back (I use more than one such line and our cases may not be compareable). you could even make it more specific to images…

[mikek12004]

would the 2 levels back be

# remove the fake directories for internal files (CSS, JS)  
    RewriteRule ^\w+/(.+)/(.+)/$ $1 [NC]

'cause right now even with the original I do not see the picture going back one level
I realise that I would face the same issue with the CSS/JS also so a rule which could make them work OK is much desirable.
Your method works ok even if you use the normal url and not the nice one?

[Dormilich]

you’re going down 3 directories which, if I remember right, does not match your URL.

Your method works ok even if you use the normal url and not the nice one?

hard to tell, I normally use a separate domain for images, CSS and Javascript (but what’s relative defined, works)

[mikek12004]

Just to get the hang of I have an index.php which has this:

<?php
echo $id=$_GET['id'];

echo 'none';
?>
<img src="imgs/bemember.jpg" />

and the htaccess file

RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
# Handle product requests
RewriteRule ^products/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 &b=$2
RewriteRule ^\w+/(.+)/(.+)/(.+)/$ $1 [NC]

now whether I use

http://127.0.0.1/cleanURLs/products/1/2/

or

http://127.0.0.1/cleanURLs/products/1/2

I get redirected to the correct page but the image (when I choose right click+propertie s) regardless the rule shows

http://127.0.0.1/cleanURLs/products/1/2/imgs/bemember.jpg

how would you make it in this situation?