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emma
Asked: 2019-07-19 09:08:08 +0800 CST

How do I write an Apache .htaccess file to force a 'friendly' URL?

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I have a small PHP MVC framework which runs on a droplet that uses Ubuntu and I'm trying to make all the URLs 'friendly'. From:

index.php?u=controller/method/param

To:

controller/method/param

For that I'm using a .htaccess file containing this code:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*) index.php?u=$1 [L,QSA]

With this I can make the URL friendly, but the unfriendly URL is still there. Therefore I can access the same content both ways:

index.php?u=controller/method/param

That is the same as:

controller/method/param

How do I force the URL to always be friendly? No more index.php?u=?

php apache2 .htaccess

1 Answers

  1. Use the below rule, we are redirecting any request to index.php which has u query param to newly created pretty url.

    Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^index.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^u=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^ http://example.com/%1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)
RewriteRule ^([^?]*)$ index.php?u=$1 [L,QSA]
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