Quick bit of Mod Rewrite help please?

BFG 9000 · 23-02-06

Hi Guys,

Like a fool, I've just sent a mailing out with an error.
In a link I have the following :-

Code:

products_id=products_id=123

Fairly obviously, this should be :-

Code:

products_id=123

What I'd like to do is use mod rewrite to allow this to work, what I'm trying at the moment is :-

Code:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)products_id=products_id(.*)$  $1products_id$2

But it doesn't seem to work.
Can anyone help please?

TTFN

BFG

chs · 23-02-06

I can't test this at the minute but have you tried adding an equals sign before the $2?

RewriteRule ^(.*)products_id=products_id(.*)$ $1products_id=$2

BFG 9000 · 23-02-06

Hi Mate,

Thanks - but it didn't work.
The problem is, I need to replace products_id=products_id= with products_id=.
I think the problem probably lies with the equals sign - I've tried esacaping it with \= but it still didn't work.

Anyone else?

eskimo · 23-02-06

try this

RewriteRule ^([^=]*)=([^=]*)=(*)$ products_id=$3

eskimo · 23-02-06

actually if you know for sure the id will be numbers you could write a rule that grabs everything up to the numbers and ignores it, and everything else will be used.

BFG 9000 · 23-02-06

Hmm.....

Code:

.htaccess: RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^([^=]*)=([^=]*)=(*)$'\n

Doesn't like it...

eskimo · 23-02-06

I have to admit I'm very rusty at modrewrites.

It seems to me that the (.*) at the begining of your rule could be to blame. Surley this is grabbing the entire string?

It may be a better idea to use a literal match.
ie something like this.

^(products_id=products_id=)(.*)$ $1products_id=$2

I have to say I only brush up on modrewrites each time I need to use them.