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This is not really specific to expression engine, but i’m trying to get mod rewrite to work, I’m starting from the official mod. I’m using the transcribe plugin, which is adding the language code to the url, but i’d like to have the country code too.

The current format of the urls is:
/en/us-news/article

I would like to change it to:
/us/en/news/article

Seems pretty simple, this regex should take care of it:

RewriteRule ^/index\.php/(ca|us)/(en|fr)/([^/]*)(.*)$ /index.php/$2/$1-$3$4 [L]

But the urls aren’t rewritten properly.. This test url:
/us/en/news/article
Becomes:
/index.php/en/us-news/article/en/news/article

The variables contain:
$1:  en
$2:  us
$3:  news
$4: /article/en/news/article

It’s $4 that’s the problem. It should only contain “/article” but a half-rewritten url is appended to the end of the variable. I have no clue where this comes from, could it be that apache parses the regex in several steps, making the replacements as it goes?
How could i make this work? What other process could be interfering?

The full .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
  
        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [C]
  
 RewriteRule ^/index\.php/(ca|us)/(en|fr)/([^/]*)(.*)$ /index.php/$2/$1-$3$4 [L] 

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

Thanks,

Vincent

Hi Vincent,

Try the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        
        RewriteRule ^/index\.php/(ca|us)/(en|fr)/([^/]*)(.*)$ /index.php/$2/$1-$3$4 [L] 
  
        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [C]
  

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

Mike

Just tried a few versions with the rewriterule on top, i get different errors but it still doesn’t work.. :(

Hello garda,

Thank you for posting your question here on the ExpressionEngine forums.

Have you had a chance to try our Mike’s suggestion?

I can also move this over to the Community Help Forum if you would like? The community might be able to help you come up with something that works if the above does not.

Cheers,

Making some progress, I’m testing with a redirect to see the resulting url, and this works:

RewriteRule /(ca|us)/(en|fr)/([^/]*)(.*)$ /index.php/$2/$1-$3$4 [R=307,L]

But as soon as I remove the redirect, i get a blank page

This is the closest i got, the only problem is that it rewrites the url in the browser bar. When I remove the R flag, i get a blank page:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

        RewriteRule /(ca|us)/(en|fr)/([^/]*)(.*)$ /index.php/$2/$1-$3$4 [R=307,L]   
    
        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
  
</IfModule>

Hi Shane, yes you can move the post, thanks!

Well it turns out the culprit wasn’t the rewrite regex; it’s a config settings that needs to be set in expression engine.. In system/expressionengine/config/config.php, the ‘uri_protocol’ var must be set to ‘PATH_INFO’:

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'PATH_INFO';

And now, EE parses the rewritten url and the correct page shows up!

Vincent