URL Links/Rewrites?

[Jack Franklin]

Did not know where the best place to put this was so I'll put it here, but please move if needed.

Right now the URLS of Penguin are: single.php?contentid=1 or category.php?category=category or month.php?month=1
When you first use WordPress, it is like that, but you can change it by adding something to the .htaccess file and, I'm presuming that some PHP is involved. Can anyone help me with what to do? I appreciate it is a big task, any help is welcome.

Thanks,

Jack

[alexgeek]

Okay I was going to write a sticky first but I'll give you some tips.
Here's one for the month:

RewriteRule ^month/([0-9]+)-[a-zA-Z]$ month.php?id=$1 [L]

Which could be accessed via www.example.com/month/2-february
The 2 in the url would be passed to month.php making it month.php?id=2.
Let me know how you get on.

[Jack Franklin]

I just put the .htaccess in the root folder right?

[Jack Franklin]

Alex, I upload the .htaccess and navigate to http://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/month/2-february and no luck. The htaccess is:

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RewriteRule ^month/([0-9]+)-[a-zA-Z]$ month.php?id=$1 [L]

Ignore the 404 by the way, I did that about 2 years ago lol.

[Marc]

You'll need to create the clean URL in the PHP that looks like http://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/month/2-february

[Jack Franklin]

Sorry? I dont understand Mark. Could you give me an example?

[Marc]

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$notAllowed = array("!", ",", ".", "[", "]", ">", "<", ";", "&", "^", "%", "$", "£", "@", '"', "#", "~", "*(", ")", "\"");
    $cleanerTitle = str_replace($notAllowed, "", $row['title']);
    $cleanTitle = str_replace(" ", "-", strtolower($cleanerTitle)); 

That is me creating my CLEAN URL.

[Jack Franklin]

I'm sorry but I still have no idea what I need to do to make the re-write work.

[alexgeek]

Is that all your htaccess contains? You need to turn on the rewrite engine with this at the top of your htacces:

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RewriteEngine on

[alexgeek]

Originally Posted by Marc

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$notAllowed = array("!", ",", ".", "[", "]", ">", "<", ";", "&", "^", "%", "$", "£", "@", '"', "#", "~", "*(", ")", "\"");
    $cleanerTitle = str_replace($notAllowed, "", $row['title']);
    $cleanTitle = str_replace(" ", "-", strtolower($cleanerTitle)); 

That is me creating my CLEAN URL.

Marc, he needs to get the rewrite to actually work before he can create the links dynamically.

[Jack Franklin]

I've added that, but the same problem still.

[Jack Franklin]

So, it's not working at all. I've checked the .htaccess file. Would it be something with my hosts?

[alexgeek]

You got this in there also?

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Options +FollowSymLinks

[Jack Franklin]

Have now. Still nothing happening though.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by alexgeek

Marc, he needs to get the rewrite to actually work before he can create the links dynamically.

I was just saying in General..

[simonb]

Its not working because jack has no http://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/month.php on his server