Posted: 08 July 2008 at 11:32am | IP Logged

i am new to this, any rule I try I keep getting pattern not matched.

my url is:

  http://www.overtherestock.com/website/pc/viewCategories.asp?id=Category=1630

and I would like to change it to

http://www.overtherestock.com/website/pc/viewCategories-idCategory-1630.htm

RewriteRule viewCategories-idCategory-(.*)\.htm$ viewCategories.asp?idCategory=$1

any diection would be helpful,Thanks

Posted: 08 July 2008 at 1:23pm | IP Logged

If you are always expecting a numeric value, isn't it better to have the following rule, please try and see if it works for you.

Posted: 09 July 2008 at 10:04am | IP Logged

I am not sure if i'am doing this right, i added RewriteLogLevel but am not getting anything in the log , but i am getting information in the error.log, just information no errors.

Posted: 09 July 2008 at 11:02am | IP Logged

ok I got it.

rid#21908696/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:08 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /website/pc/home.asp
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:08 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:08 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (1) Htaccess process request c:\live\.htaccess
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:08 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (3) applying pattern '^website/pc/viewCategories-idCategory-(\d+)\.htm$' to uri 'website/pc/home.asp'
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:09 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /website/pc/images/images6/label.gif
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:09 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:09 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (1) Htaccess process request c:\live\.htaccess
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:09 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (3) applying pattern '^website/pc/viewCategories-idCategory-(\d+)\.htm$' to uri 'website/pc/images/images6/label.gif'
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:10 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /website/pc/barcodeprinters.asp
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:10 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:10 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (1) Htaccess process request c:\live\.htaccess
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:10 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21916984/initial] (3) applying pattern '^website/pc/viewCategories-idCategory-(\d+)\.htm$' to uri 'website/pc/barcodeprinters.asp'
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:12 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /website/pc/viewCategories.asp
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:12 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:12 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (1) Htaccess process request c:\live\.htaccess
71.121.87.50 71.121.87.50  Wed, 09-Jul-2008  11:34:12 GMT [www.overtherestock/sid#1579908777][rid#21913728/initial] (3) applying pattern '^website/pc/viewCategories-idCategory-(\d+)\.htm$' to uri 'website/pc/viewCategories.asp'

Posted: 10 July 2008 at 8:20am | IP Logged

I must be missing something very basic, if my query string is website/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=1630 what would my rewrite rule be to change it to /website/pc/viewCategories-idcategory-1630.htm

Posted: 10 July 2008 at 1:55pm | IP Logged

I supposed the reason why you are doing the url rewrite is for SEO purpose. But if all the links in your site has the parameter format such as website/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=1630, then that doesn't really help you. What you need rather is to change all the links in your site to something like /website/pc/viewCategories-idcategory-1630.htm and have the url rewrite redirect internally to the asp parameter format, not a 301 redirect. But I do not know your needs, so if you insist on doing the other way around, then I would do it this way:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.*/viewCategories\.asp$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^idCategory=(\d+)$
RewriteRule (.*) website/pc/viewCategories-idCategory-%1.htm [R=301,NC,L]

This is assuming that you have the actual htm file viewCategories-idCategory-1630.htm located in the website/pc/ subfolder. I'm new to this too, so my code may not be the best, some people in this forum might probably have a better suggestion for you.