how to hide .php and id on url

Question

I want to change this URL:

http://example.com/pages.php?sports_id=23

into this:

http://example.com/pages/sports/23

My code is:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1\.php


ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '16 at 21:03

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Add this line to your .htacess

RewriteRule ^pages$ pages.php [L]

But I think it will not be possible to change the GET part to a slash. (Correct me if I am wrong).

answered Feb 12 '16 at 21:03

MegaXLR I did not understand ? – Fhd Kaxi Feb 12 '16 at 21:22
I have tried all the Rewrite lines in my .htaccess but nothing happened. It shows error and shows the url like: http://domain.com/pages/?p_id=39&p_title=Christine%20Lagarde – Fhd Kaxi Feb 12 '16 at 21:25
How is the `/sports/23` part of the URL handled by this directive? – MrWhite Feb 12 '16 at 21:29
the url is still same like : http://domain.com/pages.php?id=22 i am using this in my link: – Fhd Kaxi Feb 12 '16 at 21:34
@FhdKaxi You should be using the "pretty" URL in your link. ie. ``. You then use the code in .htaccess to rewrite this "pretty" URL into the real (ugly) URL. – MrWhite Feb 12 '16 at 22:18
you are saying ( RewriteRule ^pages$ pages.php [L] ) in .htaccess and in link ? – Fhd Kaxi Feb 12 '16 at 23:05
Yes, except the directive above is not correct. – MrWhite Feb 12 '16 at 23:25
I updated .htaccess as : ...... RewriteRule ^pages$ pages.php [L] ...... and Link on my php page as : .... ...... But still its not working and it did not show my the page and error on page occurs. Please guide me as I am new at php – Fhd Kaxi Feb 12 '16 at 23:42
As I have stated, it will not be possible to make the GET part a part of the URL which means you woll always be stuck with the question mark in the page. However, making changes to your .htaccess does **not** change the `` tags in your php file. you need to explicitly change them to the requested location yourself. – Feb 13 '16 at 19:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 13 '16 at 01:01

If you haven't already, you first need to change the URLs in your application to the form /pages/sports/23. You then use .htaccess to rewrite the "pretty" URL back to the real URL.

To literally rewrite /pages/sports/23 back into /pages.php?sports_id=23 then you can do something like:

RewriteRule ^pages/sports/23$ pages.php?sports_id=23 [L]

However, you probably want something more generic. But how generic? It's not clear from your question which elements are variable. Something like the following might work for you...

RewriteRule ^([^/])+/([^/])+/(\d{3})+$ $1.php?$2_id=$3 [L]

how to hide .php and id on url

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