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.HTACCESS adding to slugs

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.

Solution 
  • 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).