PHP Seo Friendly URL

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I'm having some trouble using rewrite engine to achieve my goal with friendly url.

Basically I have the following structure: - index.php - down - index.php

My links in main index are something like this: download/index.php?down=FILENAME

I would like it to rewrite something like /download/FILE-NAME ( while pointing for the index.php inside download folder ). I would like my links in first index could be used as well /download/FILE-NAME

My actual code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule download/^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ index.php?down=$1

Can anyone help me achieving this? I'm constantly getting error due to I can't do it right. After that, how can I get the the variable $1 after transform to seo friendly urls? I will have download/FILE-NAME and I need with PHP get the info from FILE-NAME.

So basically in the main index.php I would have a link like /download/FILE-NAME that will open the down/index.php file with the FILE-NAME ( staying something like.

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php.htaccessseo

3 Answers

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Try this :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^download/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ /ifanydirectory/index.php?down=$1

And you can get variable using $_GET['down'] ifanydirectory is the directory name in which index.php exists relative path from root level, if not applicable simply use /index.php do some experiments you'll get the correct one.

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^download/(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?down=$1 [L,QSA]

to catch filename in index.php:

$filename = $_GET["down"];
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Maybe I've not explain it well because it doesn't work as it's supposed.

I've edited the main question but try to explain better here.

I have a main index.php with links that would be 

download/FILE-1
download/FILE-2
download/FILE-3

That links should open the folder down/index.php?down=FILE-NAME. Isn't supposed that anyone can access "down" folder directly, so I would like to transform links in my main index.php like /down/index.php?down=FILE-NAME to something like /download/FILE-NAME.