.HTACCESS adding to slugs-CodePudding

So, I'm currently building a REST API in PHP.

I managed to get slugs working for the most part. If I request /api/admin/v1/users/1, it will return the user I need. However, I also need to be able to add to it, e.g. /api/admin/v1/users/1/keys.

The HTACCESS file managing the slug is in the folder itself (/users/).

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?slug=$1 [L]

I tried adding another line, but I think I messed up (I'm not that advanced with HTACCESS)

RewriteRule ^(.*)/keys$ keys.php?slug=$1 [L]

This didn't do anything, it still returns the user object.

CodePudding user response：

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?slug=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/keys$ keys.php?slug=$1 [L]

The first rule matches everything, so the second rule is never processed. But since the first rule matches everything it will also rewrite itself (to user.php?slug=user.php) on the second pass by the rewrite engine.

You can resolve these issues by making the regex more restrictive. From your example URL it looks like the slug is numeric - in which case you can restrict the regex to match digits (0-9) only.

For example:

RewriteRule ^(\d*)$ user.php?slug=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(\d )/keys$ keys.php?slug=$1 [L]

Note that the first rule also matches an empty URL-path, ie. no slug at all (as does your original rule). The second rule does not permit an empty slug (it would never match anyway).

CodePudding user response：

The second rule don't work because the L flag stay for: last - stop processing rules

So you need to edit to:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ user.php?slug=$1 [QSA, L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/keys$ keys.php?slug=$1 [QSA, L]