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Mod Rewrite - Blog posts direct to error 404

I can't seem to rewrite my urls successfully, i have used:

RewriteRule ^/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /post.php?s=$1 [L]

and in the perch login

{postSlug}

What am i forgetting? My diagnostic report is below:


    Perch: 2.8.11, PHP: 5.6.11, MySQL: 5.0.91, with PDO
    Server OS: Linux, cgi-fcgi
    Installed apps: content (2.8.11), assets (2.8.11), categories (2.8.11), perch_blog (4.6)
    App runtimes: <?php include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/content/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/categories/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_blog/runtime.php'); ?>
    PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
    PERCH_PATH: /home/zurimaga/public_html/perch
    PERCH_CORE: /home/zurimaga/public_html/perch/core
    PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /home/zurimaga/public_html/perch/resources
    Image manipulation: GD
    PHP limits: Max upload 128M, Max POST 128M, Memory: 256M, Total max file upload: 128M
    Resource folder writeable: Yes
    HTTP_HOST: zurimagazine.com
    DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/zurimaga/public_html
    REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
    SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

  • 6 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Is your post.php in the root of your site? That rewrite rule assumes it is.
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

Hi Rachel,

Yes it is, all my blog files are in the root.
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

That will cause you problems as you'll be matching any files, I'd suggest putting them in a folder /blog.

See the video here: https://docs.grabaperch.com/video/v/simple-url-rewriting/
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

Hmm, I can do that but that'll mean i have to redirect my customers to /blog/ whenever they land on the root as there's no other files there. Is there something I can add to the .htaccess file to do this?
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

You listing could be in the root but I would suggest you put the detail page into a folder. It'll make it easier for you to rewrite the URLs.
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

Ahh, so only put post.php in /blog/ but the rest of the perch files on the root?
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

yes you could do that.
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

Wonderful, thank you for your help Rachel. I'll have a go at this im about 20mins and let you know how it pans out. If all goes well, I'll mark it as a solution to end the thread :)
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

Hi Rachel, the blog post rewriting has worked perfectly, however I've added your additional ones below:

    RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1&page=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^blog/category/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?cat=$1 [L]

    RewriteRule ^blog/date/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?year=$1&page=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^blog/date/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?year=$1 [L]

    RewriteRule ^blog/tag/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/{0,1}$ /blog/archive.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^blog/tag/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)$ /blog/archive.php?tag=$1 [L]

and it hasn't worked, any ideas why? I have archive.php within /blog/
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

What isn't working, and how is it failing?
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

Hi Drew,

The url for my categories isn't rewriting, the url string is https://zurimagazine.com/blog/archive.php?cat=natural-hair and i'd like it to be: https://zurimagazine.com/blog/natural-hair
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

How will your rules distinguish between a post called natural-hair and category called natural-hair ?
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

That is a very good point.. Okay so what if i made a folder within /blog/ called "category" and placed my archive.php in there. Would that work? And what would I add to my .htaccess to rewrite that url?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

You don't need the folder - just add that category segment to the rewrite rule.
Nathaniel Nwosu

Nathaniel Nwosu 0 points

6 years ago

Hi Drew,

I'm not too familiar with mod_rewrites and wouldn't know how to do that :( is there a way you can advise me further? Also I have just double checked my url string and it's appearing as..

https://www.zurimagazine.com/blog/03/08/15/archive.php?cat=natural-hair
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

We can only really support Perch here. There are lots of places to learn how to use mod_rewrite.

I wrote quite a bit about it here: https://24ways.org/2013/url-rewriting-for-the-fearful/