Htaccess Remove part of URL

Question

I have this URL: http://www.website.nl/pagina/4/wie-ben-ik.html

"pagina" is a real php document. "4" is the id of the webpage, with the id I get the results from the database.

Can I change this URL to http://www.website.nl/wie-ben-ik with htaccess?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Try adding the following to the .htaccess file in the root directory of your site.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 

#redirect http://www.website.nl/pagina/4/wie-ben-ik.html to http://www.website.nl/wie-ben-ik 
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /pagina/4/(wie-ben-ik)\.html [NC]       
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

#process wie-ben-ik as http://www.website.nl/pagina/4/wie-ben-ik.html
RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z]+)$  pagina/4/$1.html [L,NC] 

Answer 2

You have to pass the id some way or the other if you want it to query from the database.

Either use a query string (name-value pair) or have it in the URI like your are doing above.

If you do not want pagina in your URI you can have your URI's like this: http://www.website.nl/wie-ben-ik/<the number you want to send>

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(wie-ben-ik)/(\d+)
RewriteRule ^ /pagina/%2/%1\.html