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1. Zaphod
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Ok,

   So I have a car listings site setup with permalinks enabled as standard and it works fine.

   However, there's almost 70k cars on it so I created a custom search page
   where the user selects car make, model, year, price, mileage, colour etc...

   I'm wondering if there's a way to add a rule to the .htaccess file that would convert
   http://www.mysite.com/used-cars/?make=renault&model=clio etc
   to
   http://www.mysite.com/used-cars/renault/clio/

   WITHOUT breaking the normal WP permalinks. I just have the permalink structure set to /%postname%/

   Any help appreciated.

2. Zaphod
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Have made a very poor start on this.

   Have created a dummy site non-wordpress site on my local machine using a .html file, one or two php files etc.

   in the .htaccess file I put
   

   RewriteRule ^used-cars/([0-9a-zA-Z]*)$ /used-cars/$1/
   RewriteRule ^used-cars/([0-9a-zA-Z]*)/$ /ht/?make=$1

   so if I enter
   http://localhost/ht/used-cars/Abjh4/ #URL FOR DEMO ONLY - WON'T WORK

   it shows up as such in the browser but looks for :
   /mypage.php?make=Abjh4
   SO AS SUCH, IT WORKS.

   TWO THINGS.

   1) Above example: can't figure out how to get it to work as follows:
   http://localhost/ht/used-cars/ford/fiesta/
   to show above url but look for
   /mypage.php?make=ford&model=fiesta

   2)If I add this [two rewrite rules above] to the WordPress .htaccess file after the
   # END WordPress
   bit, it makes no difference whatsoever.

   So I need a heads up on how to get a rule that I know works (in one sense) to work with the WP rules and not break anything.

   2)

3. Zaphod
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Small update to the above:

   RewriteRule ^used-cars/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)$ /used-cars/$1/$2/
   RewriteRule ^used-cars/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)/$ /ht/?make=$1&model=$2

   works to turn
   http://localhost/ht/used-cars/ford/fiesta/
   into (on server end)
   /mypage.php?make=ford&model=fiesta

   ** BUT ** it breaks if I just put

   http://localhost/ht/used-cars/ford/

   saying
   Not Found

   The requested URL /used-cars/ford// was not found on this server.
   *note* TWO trailing slashes at the end...

   One step forward, and two steps back...

4. Zaphod
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Just FYI here's my .htaccess

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /mysite/
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   #RewriteRule . /carcompare/index.php [L] L denotes LAST - i.e. dont' follow any more Rewrite Rules
   RewriteRule . /mysite/index.php 
   
   </IfModule>
   
   # END WordPress
   
   #RewriteRule ^old\.html$ new.html  THIS ONE WORKS
   RewriteRule ^used-cars/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)$ /used-cars/$1/$2/
   RewriteRule ^used-cars/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)/([0-9a-zA-Z_-]*)/$ /ht/?make=$1&model=$2

5. Zaphod
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   In the above example normal WP rules work fine, my redirection rules being ignored. The /ht/ bit on the last line is wrong but I'm aware of that - that's not the issue.

6. Zaphod
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   .... is there anybody out there....

   :-)

   Maybe this just can't be done?

7. arpitap
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   let me know if you find some solution for this.

   Thanks,
   Arpita

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