I'd like to write a rewrite rule to do the following: if any of the following files exist on the server as a static html file in a specific directory then I'd like .htaccess to serve that static file. Otherwise, I'd like the id (first number after the .com/ and before the first hyphen) to be passed as a query parameter to www.gallery.com/index.php
Redirect should occur for the following URLs if it doesn't exist as a static HTML page.
www.gallery.com/2-swimming.html
www.gallery.com/2
gallery.com/2
Below is my entire .htaccess file
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENANE} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENANE} !-d
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)-(.*)\.html$ /index.php?id=$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Is there anything wrong with my rewrite condition.(I'm having a hard time). Also what is an efficient way to grab the id incase of a redirect.
Why not just always pass everything to index.php?
PHP is a lot better at manipulating strings than .htaccess
The -f line already takes care of existing static files. (And -d for directories)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
This rule matches and captures everything.