Rewrite dynamic url structure with .hataccess

Question

I\'ve tried to rewrite the dynamic URL (below) to a slightly different structure; either does not work or I am not sure if it is correct:

• Old URL (URL#1): index.ph

Answer 1

Here is the code that worked (first step), from faa:

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} lang=([^&]+)&zone=([^&]+)&city=([^&]+)&str=([^&]+)&search=  [NC]
RewriteRule .* /index.php?lang=%1&country=%2&place=%3&street=%4 [L,NC]

Answer 2

Assuming your variables only ever consist of lowercase letters and digits, try this:

RewriteRule ^/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)/([a-z0-9]+)$
    /index.php?lang=$1&country=$2&place=$3&street=$4
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}
    ^lang=([a-z0-9]+)&zone=([a-z0-9]+)&city=([a-z0-9]+)&str=([a-z0-9]+)&search=[a-z0-9]+$
RewriteRule ^index.php$
    /index.php?lang=%1&country=%2&place=%3&street=%4 [R=permanent]

(Note that there must be no line breaks, but I've inserted them here with indents just to make the block readable on this webpage.)

Answer 3

http://example.com/index.php?lang=AAA&zone=BBB&city=CCC&str=DDD&search=EEE

redirected to:

http://example.com/AAA/BBB/CCC/DDD

silently mapped to:

http://example.com/index.php?lang=AAA&country=BBB&place=CCC&street=DDD

You may try this in one .htacces file in root directory:

Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} lang=([^&]+)&zone=([^&]+)&city=([^&]+)&str=([^&]+)&search=  [NC]
RewriteRule .* /%1/%2/%3/%4?   [R=301,L,NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\.php                          [NC]
RewriteRule .* /index.php?lang=%1&country=%2&place=%3&street=%4 [L,NC]

If the query contains parameters in this format: %nn, try adding the B flag to both rules. Example: [L,NC,B].