rewriterule on subdomain doesn't work

[UD2006]

I have tried several combinations (searched from google), but none are working, I also add "RewriteEngine on" to the .htaccess, just as my hosting company told me.

I have this following url:

http://submain.domain/folder of url/index.php?page=$1

$1 can stand for Home, about, contact

The .htaccess code I use is this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/?$ http://submain.domain/folder of url/index.php?page=$1 [L]

Nothing happends.
But it needs to be:
http://submain.domain/page/any of the mainpages


Another thing is that I also have "depth" pages:

http://submain.domain/Offerte/index....r%20ontstoppen

Then the rewriten url needs to be:
http://submain.domain/Offerte/offert...dracht/another item

How can I do that?

[ShaneC]

Important Note: This fix is assuming your .htaccess is in the subdomain (ie: http://subdomain.domain/.htacess). If not, please clarify this.

You appear to be invoking the regex improperly. Try something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page/([A-Za-z]*)$ http://subdomain.domain/folder_of_url/index.php?page=$1 [L]

This will cause all requests to:

http://subdomain.domain/page/<insert alphabetic page>

to query

http://subdomain.domain/folder_of_url/index.php?page=<insert alphabetic page>

Keep in mind that this ONLY covers alphabetical page names. If you include numbers or other characters it will have to be modified.

(Bonus Tip: You may want to use the QSA flag as well ([L,QSA]) if you want to automatically append query strings (i.e: http://...../page/my_page?query=string))

For more clarification on how this is done, check out this tutorial.

[UD2006]

The .htaccess is in the root of the subdomain.

I have tried, a couple of things you posted, even the tutorial but it didn't work.

The address remain the dynamic address, instead of the more friendly url.

[ShaneC]

Your phasing suggests that you might be expecting a redirect instead of a rewrite. The rewrite engine basically translates the clean URL into the dynamic URL for the purposes of the server.

Did you try navigating to the clean URL in your browser?

[UD2006]

it's kinda working now, but the only thing, is that the url is now the friendly url, when I click on a menu item I get a message that the page isn't found, the url uses part of the friendly url but with the dynamic at the end.

Do I need to change the menu urls as well, because the menu of the website (links) are not working.

[ShaneC]

Then, as I detailed more at the end of this post, you'll want to add the QSA flag.

Change [L] to [L,QSA].

[UD2006]

Originally Posted by ShaneC

Then, as I detailed more at the end of this post, you'll want to add the QSA flag.

Change [L] to [L,QSA].

I already did that, but the menu holds the following as link (displaying only the Home item, but there are more):

<a href="index.php?page=Home">Home</a>

I have seem a website that needs to change the menu href to => Home

and in the .htaccess create a rule for this:

RewriteRule ^Home$ http://subdomain.domain/Gratisofferte.nu/index.php?page=Home [L,QSA]

At the moment the cleanurl is as followed:

http://subdomain.domain/folder/page/Home

So when I click on a menu item (for example the home button), I get in the url:

http://subdomain.domain/folder/page/index.php?page=Home

[ShaneC]

Well following the example we saw before you need to eliminate all of your dynamic URLs. Remember: Rewrite != Redirect.

So, this link:

<a href="index.php?page=Home">Home</a>

Needs to become this link:

<a href="page/Home">Home</a>

Keep in mind, though that this will not work with the rewrite rule I discussed earlier:

http://subdomain.domain/folder/page/Home

For that you'll need to modify ^page/([A-Za-z]*)$ to ^folder/page/([A-Za-z]*)$