I'd like to use mod_rewrite within the .htaccess file to rewrite folders to a var string. Below is examples of current and what I would prefer.Current URL: example.com/main/folder1/folder2/folder3Preferred URL: example.com/parser.php?var1=folder1&var2=folder2&var3=folder3How can I rewrite the current URL's to preferred URLs?
Rewrite up to three folders into three query string parameters to a PHP script
htaccess;apache;mod rewrite;custom variables
You can use these three rewrite rules which handle up to 3 levels of directories:RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^main\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/? /parser.php?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3 [L]RewriteRule ^main\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+)\/?  /parser.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [L]RewriteRule ^main\/([^\/]+)\/?  /parser.php?var1=$1 [L]In those regular expressions:^main\/: starts with main/([^\/]+): a bunch of characters that are not slashes (in a capturing group to be pulled out with $1, $2, or $3)\/? an optional ending slash[L] the last rewrite rule (so that later rewrite rules don't also get triggered)I usually prefer to pass all the folders as a single variable like so:RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^main\/(.*) /parser.php?folders=$1then your PHP parser could split the folders on the slash to get the three variables you want.