Help me write mod rewrite code

[lz83ny]

I'm using the following code to rewrite my urls and thankfully it's working:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?menu=%1&cat=%2&artist=%3&title=%4 [L]
but I want it to work for every directory. I tried the following but it doesn't seem to work:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?menu=%1&cat=%2&artist=%3 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?menu=%1&cat=%2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/([^/]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php?menu=%1 [L]


Can anybody help?

[lz83ny]

This is a url:
http://www.google.com/music-vid...American-Idiot/ that works with my current mod rewrite, however http://www.google.com/music-videos/Rock-Music/ doesn't, so I want my mod rewrite to work for every virtual directory, such as:

http://www.google.com/music-videos/
http://www.google.com/music-videos/Rock-Music/
http://www.google.com/music-vid...usic/Green-Day/

I hope it clarifies what my intentions are.

[Nintendo]

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?menu=$1&cat=$2&artist=$3&title=$4 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?menu=$1&cat=$2&artist=$3 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*)/$ index.php?menu=$1&cat=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ index.php?menu=$1 [L]

[lz83ny]

OMG, I've been told at sitepoint that it's impossible to do it, but I guess nothing is impossible for you, Nintendo. You saved me days, or maybe even weeks of wasting my time trying to find the solution. You're a legend!

[Nintendo]

Mod_rewrite is COOL!!!!! Once you figure it out then you NEVER want to have those ugly .php/.cgi URLs again!!!!! And of course at the same time, Google suddenly loves the site!

The first two Options lines might not be needed, that depends on the server.

It's impossible to write a rule to encompass every single possible amount of sub-virtual directories. You'll need to match everything after your domain including a /. Then use your script to take the URL you have and manipulate it to get the relevant content. Unfortunately this is out of the scope of the Apache forum I think

Dude! You sure you know what you are talking about!!

[James]

They're full of **** if they said something like that couldn't be done, because it is done--and very frequently.

[moonshield]

i dont really understand all these ** stars. What do they mean?

[lz83ny]

**** stand for "fill in the blanks"

[moonshield]

that makes good sense indeed.

[James]

sh¡t (man I'm tricky)

[moonshield]

. What did you say!

Nintendo's example does help me out a bunch. Thanks dude.

[ordinary_guy]

He's really helpful and polite.

[Nintendo]

He's really helpful and polite.

ME???!!! I don't know about that!!! I annoy some people, especially when it has to do with AWS!!

[MarkB]

Haha!!!!!

[James]

j00 Ennoy peeple?!111111111111111 :PL0000000L!11111!!!!!! HAHA!!





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