I am trying to come up with a rewrite rule, but I am having problems.
What I need - any url that starts with /services/XXX to be redirected to /services/api.php?service=XXX
I also want to ignore any files or folders that might also match.
What I have so far:
RewriteRule ^services/([a-z]+)$ /services/api.php?service=$1 [NC, L]
But this does not work at all, it shows a 404 page saying that file is missing when I test it. Any help is much appreciated.
To ignore the files that exists just ignore the "RewriteCond"s.
Just rewrite everything that comes into services/ to api.php?service ...
Put this into your services folder.
Be careful with your encoding, save the file as .htaccess with a encode that your server reads.
# .htaccess mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php?service=$1 [QSA,L]
If you don't need to avoid Files, then just go to:
# .htaccess mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php?service=$1 [QSA,L]