rewrite url with htaccess

Question

First of all I am a beginner so please answer in details.

My Problem: I want to write a .htacess rule for.

www.asdf.com/city.php?city=New-York to www.asdf.com/New-York

but also with that I have other pages such as

www.asdf.com/country.php?country=USA

which i would like to appear as

www.asdf.com/USA and 

www.asdf.com/state.php?country=LA

which i would like to appear as

www.asdf.com/LA

Pretty confused how to do that, any help, I really need to sort this out.

THanks in advance

Have you checked **any** mod_rewrite tutorial? It's really the first thing explained there — zerkms, Jun 18 '13 at 22:47
PS: how would you determine that in `www.asdf.com/New-York` the `?city=` should be used and in `www.asdf.com/USA` the `?country=` should be? — zerkms, Jun 18 '13 at 22:48
this is what i am confused about. that how i shall determine that it is city or the country. — Angela Taylor, Jun 18 '13 at 23:06
well, rewrite it to the same url like `?countryorcity=`, then determine what actually it is and continue processing accordingly — zerkms, Jun 18 '13 at 23:15

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '13 at 23:44

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Im not sure my approach is the best way to do it but this is how I'm doing it at the moment:

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?var1=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ index.php?var1=$1

Rewrites all pages to the index.php

On index.php I get the URL with: $url = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; Then I do a MYSQL search to determine what kind of page it is.

switch($pagetype){
  case "city": include('city.php');
  break; 
  case "country": include('country.php');
  break;    
}

answered Jun 18 '13 at 23:44

Jab

isn't this class your're using: `[a-zA-Z0-9_-]` equivalent to `[\w-]` ?.. – CSᵠ Jun 18 '13 at 23:49
I think you're right. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11874234/difference-between-w-and-b-regular-expression-meta-characters – Jab Jun 19 '13 at 12:05

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