.htaccess rewrite url for cms news

[SaW]

Trying to rewrite the url of my news section, but doesn't work on server, neither on localhost.
I want to change the url from

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to something more simpler like

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, and have put this rule into my .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]+)$    /index.php?url=news&id=$1

.. but still doesn't work.

Any help would be appreciated, thx.

 

[JayC]

Do you have IIS, or XAMPP?
 
IIS:

<rule name="News">
     <match url="^news/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(|/)$" ignoreCase="false" />
     <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?url=news&amp;id={R:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>

 

[SaW]

Trying on both IIS and local on XAMPP. I'm bit of a noob, where do i put this?

 

[JayC]

Trying on both IIS and local on XAMPP. I'm bit of a noob, where do i put this?

Well, First of all if you are using XAMPP on your local , you would add that rule you created in your .htaccess

IIS does not read .htaccess, it reads web.config.

You should put this in your web.config file on your server under the <rules> </rules> tags in its own spot.

Then restart your IIS service to reload your website rules immediately.

 

[SaW]

Well, First of all if you are using XAMPP on your local , you would add that rule you created in your .htaccess

IIS does not read .htaccess, it reads web.config.

You should put this in your web.config file on your server under the <rules> </rules> tags in its own spot.

Then restart your IIS service to reload your website rules immediately.

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Still haven't changed after adding rule and restarting IIS

 

[JayC]

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Still haven't changed after adding rule and restarting IIS

why are you on index.php?url=news&id=7

You should be at /news/7

 

[SaW]

why are you on index.php?url=news&id=7

You should be at /news/7

Have i misunderstood something? I'm trying to make index.php?url=news&id=7 into /news/7

 

[JayC]

I think you are confused what rules do in the first place bud.

Rules aren't going to change the links in your website automatically. If you load index.php?url=news it will load index.php?url=news

The purpose of rules are to act like interfaces, protecting where your data is coming from, but also to clean up your URL so its not a long string of things. Instead of having

index.php?page=news&id=1&rank=4&username=JayCustom&hidden_values=2

You could shorten that by having a rule that will take THIS URL:
/news/1/4/JayCustom/2

and convert it behind the scenes, and bring the information of the long URL back to the shortened one.

Long story short,
After adding the rules, if you manually type in the URL bar /news/1
It will load the first news article.

It will not update the links on your site

 

[SaW]

Holy shit, i see now, thank you very much! Then everything works as it should, just gotta change the links to my news section.