: .htaccess - delete characters from URL and redirect I need help modify a file .htaccess delete characters from URL and redirect. The file .htaccess is currently empty. I want to change the word

@Cugini213

With the following code:


Line 1: Just a block header comment to explain what happens in the code snippet
Line 2: Requires a parameter match of the action=article value pair;
Line 3: Captures the cat_id value into parameter %2.
Line 4: Captures the id value into parameter %5.
Line 5: Could be used to capture the lang value (commented out / not in use).
Line 6: Rewrites internally to a hard-coded URL with parameters specified.


If you wished to use the lang value at some point in the future you would simply need to append &lang=%8 to the end of line 6 and remove the # comment prefix from line 5.

# Change action parameter value from article to topic and drop lang parameter
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} action=article
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?cat_id=([^&]+)&?(.*)?$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?id=([^&]+)&?(.*)?$ #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*&)?lang=([^&]+)&?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^index.php(.*)$ index.php?action=topic&cat_id=%2&id=%5

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