[SOLVED] mod_rewrite append to URL

varig203 · 04-23-2012, 09:11 PM

Good day everyone,

I've been trying to find a way to append a header to a URL for a few days; however, I have not been successful (I am quite new to apache/mod_rewrite).
I have a header that is called UserPreferences and contains the following ?size=large&color=green (size and color are user specific attributes) . Users connect to my Apache web server using the following base url http://example.com, I'd like to rewrite the url so that it looks like http://example.com/?size=large&color=green.

Thanks in advance,

VG

Snark1994 · 04-24-2012, 10:02 AM

I don't think you actually mean 'header'. A header is something the website send to your browser, like "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8". In addition, you're just passing variables to a script! It would be far easier to edit your script to include the lines

PHP Code:



if(empty($_GET['size'])) $size='large';
if(empty($_GET['color'])) $color='green';

or similarly in a non-PHP language.

However, if you have to do it with .htaccess (which as before, I don't recommend - I suspect you're asking the wrong question) then I believe the following will work:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?size=large&color=green [L]

Hope this helps,

varig203 · 05-14-2012, 04:20 PM

Sorry, I did not provided enough info for my question. Here is how I solved my problem:

RewriteCond %{LA-U:ENV:UserPreferences} (.+)
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/%1 [L]

Snark1994 · 05-15-2012, 11:59 AM

Well done for solving your problem! Please mark the thread as 'SOLVED' so other people know that there's a solution in the thread.