URL Rewrites

[aarcmedia]

OK, so we have a client that has their URL's set up like this........

http://www.example.com/CATCODE/PRODCODE/Product Name With Odd Characters.html

The goal here is to use a rewrite rule that simply strips everything after the PRODCODE/, leaving it as.....

http://www.example.com/CATCODE/PRODCODE/, but for the life of me I can't get the rule right.

Does anyone out here in forum land now a simple way via .htaccess to simply strip the 3rd item (aka the product name) off of this URL globally? Just make the whole productname.html go bye-bye?

[Pete McNamara]

Re: URL Rewrites

Ted,

I haven't done one of these under Miva PR9, but there used to be a "pc" item which rendered both the product and category codes, viz:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/pc/(.*)/(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) /mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=%1&Category_ Code=%2 [L]

Also, look at how Miva creates the rewrite for Breadcrumbs in PR9 - this seems to accomplish what you want. Unfortunately I am travelling at the moment so I can't check a htaccess file to allow me to give you the exact code.

Pete