Using RewriteBase in .htaccess to make links pretty

Question

I'm working on a project right now and I'm trying to make the links pretty.

We have urls like this: http://subdomain.domain.com/DynamicCountry/DynamicName/file.php

What I'm trying to do is set the RewriteBase to /DynamicCountry/DynamicName. Is this possible using Mod_Rewrite's variables?

Answer 1

Provided you are happy with pretty URL's that do not end in / but have no file extensions shown such as .php, for example:
http://subdomain.domain.com/DynamicCountry/DynamicName/file
then you could try this solution.

• Add these lines of code in your http://subdomain.domain.com/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(lib|theme|uploads|images|ajax) - [L]
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|api|theme|images|robots\.txt|sitemap\.xml)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

• And then these in your http://subdomain.domain.com/index.php file (substituting the $sPath variable value with the correct linux path for your hosting environment):

<?php
$sPath='/var/www/subdomain.domain.com/';
$sAlias=isset($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])?substr($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"],1):''; if(strpos($sAlias,'?')>0) $sAlias=substr($sAlias,0,strpos($sAlias,'?')); if(strpos($sAlias,'?')<1) $sAlias='default';
if(!file_exists($sPath.$sAlias.'php')) $sAlias='file-not-found';
require_once($sPath.$sAlias.'php');

• And then create a pages sub-folder inside the subdomain web root folder, and inside there you could have sub-folders DynamicCountry and DynamicName and then file.php. In this example, the pretty URL:
  http://subdomain.domain.com/DynamicCountry/DynamicName/file
  would show the page:
  /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/pages/DynamicCountry/DynamicName/file.php

• In the event of an HTTP 404 error, you'll need a file to be present at:
  /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/pages/file-not-found.php
  in order to ensure an infinite loop of File Not Found errors does not occur! For SEO reasons mainly, remember to use PHP code header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'); before any HTML code is output. This helps search engines identify real pages from error pages.

Obviously you can modify this solution to your requirements but hopefully it gives you a good skeleton concept to work from.