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.htaccess for friendly categories

I have a list and detail set of products at /products/index.php Each product has one or more categories allocated to it.

Using this htaccess rule I can clean up the ?cat= part when displaying products in a particular category.

RewriteRule ^products/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /products/?cat=$1 [L]

Enabling me to view the list of products in a particular category at the url: /products/products/gifts-for-the-girls/

However, I'd really like to lose the extra /products/ from the category path and just have the url to be /products/gifts-for-the-girls/

How can I achieve this?

Thanks.
Simon Clay

Simon Clay 127 points

  • 4 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

I think that just comes down to how you write out the link in your template, doesn't it?
Simon Clay

Simon Clay 127 points

4 years ago

Sorry, you're right. It is just down to the link and how to filter:

perch_content_custom('Products', [
            'template' => '_product_listing.html',
            'category' => 'products/'.perch_get('cat'),
          ]);