Rewrite URL of custom php based E-Commerce Website

Question

I have experimented a lot already however they did not work for me, so i have to put this query for which i need very specific solutions.

No CMS is used. The website is an eCommerce site developed using php

My site url structure is

For Product Pages = https://www[dot]sitename.com/product.php?product=productid
For Category Pages = https://www[dot]sitename.com/category.php?category=category-name
For SubCat Pages = https://www[dot]sitename.com/category.php?subcategory=sub-category-name

I want

For Product Pages = https://www[dot]sitename.com/product/productid/
For Category Pages= https://www[dot]sitename.com/category/category-name
For SubCat Pages = https://www[dot]sitename.com/category/subcategory/sub-category-name

How can i do this using .htaccess?

Please refer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1039725/how-to-url-re-writing-in-php — sjkon, Oct 01 '13 at 07:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '13 at 07:31

Add this to your .htaccess in your web root / directory

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Products    
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # not a dir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # not a file
RewriteRule ^product/([^/]+)/?$ product.php?product=$1 [NC,QSA,L]

# Categories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # not a dir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # not a file
RewriteRule ^category/([^/]+)/?$ category.php?category=$1 [NC,QSA,L]

# Sub-categories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # not a dir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f # not a file
RewriteRule ^category/subcategory/([^/]+)/?$ category.php?subcategory=$1 [NC,QSA,L]

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '13 at 07:28

The following htaccess rules work for me, and hopefully these will work for you.

RewriteEngine On    # Turn on the rewriting engine

RewriteRule    ^category/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    category.php?category=$1   [NC,L]    # Handle category

RewriteRule    ^category/subcategory/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    category.php?subcategory=$1   [NC,L]    # Handle sub category

RewriteRule    ^product/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$    product.php?product=$1   [NC,L]    # Handle product

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '13 at 08:26

Thank you all for your suggestions. However none of the methods worked for me. Let me add few more things about the site and hosting which may help you analyze my problem and provide alternative solutions.

The website is hosted on Godaddy Shared Hosting
The website is not using any CMS

Rewrite URL of custom php based E-Commerce Website

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