I'm having some trouble using rewrite engine to achieve my goal with friendly url.
Basically I have the following structure: - index.php - down - index.php
My links in main index are something like this: download/index.php?down=FILENAME
I would like it to rewrite something like /download/FILE-NAME ( while pointing for the index.php inside download folder ). I would like my links in first index could be used as well /download/FILE-NAME
My actual code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule download/^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?down=$1
Can anyone help me achieving this? I'm constantly getting error due to I can't do it right. After that, how can I get the the variable $1 after transform to seo friendly urls? I will have download/FILE-NAME and I need with PHP get the info from FILE-NAME.
So basically in the main index.php I would have a link like /download/FILE-NAME that will open the down/index.php file with the FILE-NAME ( staying something like.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^download/(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?down=$1 [L,QSA]
to catch filename in index.php:
$filename = $_GET["down"];
Try this :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^download/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /ifanydirectory/index.php?down=$1
And you can get variable using $_GET['down'] ifanydirectory is the directory name in which index.php exists relative path from root level, if not applicable simply use /index.php do some experiments you'll get the correct one.
Maybe I've not explain it well because it doesn't work as it's supposed.
I've edited the main question but try to explain better here.
I have a main index.php with links that would be
download/FILE-1
download/FILE-2
download/FILE-3
That links should open the folder down/index.php?down=FILE-NAME. Isn't supposed that anyone can access "down" folder directly, so I would like to transform links in my main index.php like /down/index.php?down=FILE-NAME to something like /download/FILE-NAME.