Route rewrite aliases

Hi all

I'm actually stucked on a rewrite problem.
here is my problem :
RewriteRule ^fr-blog-(.)-article-(.).htm$ fr?blog=$1&article=$2 [QSA]

Basically, I though that I could insert it in .htaccess witch is in fact the right place.
But...
After enabled tracing in apache rewrite, I can see the rule passe correctly and then all other rules from grav, transform it and I finally loose mine.
I tryed different place in .ht, I copy/past the result from the log directly in url to ensure it was correct, and it was.

So I guess I could not use short url rewriting wit mod_rewrite. And then, I found route, aliases etc. config in the .md.
But I confess, I did not manage to make it work :( I did not even understand how I could transform my wich in routes/default/canonical/aliases and so on... (reading the doc of course)

If anybody has a little idea or even better, some examples (! 😋 ) I take it 😃
Thanks in advance

Hi @Francois
Will try and help you out if I can .

So you want your link of

• eg http://localhost.dev/fr-blog-1-article-2.htm
  which has a regex of /fr-blog-(.)-article-(,).htm so (.) can be a single character/number

Which then links to the grav page of
http://localhost.dev/blog/1/article/2/

Two ways of doing this will be through routes or redirects.

I have tested the routes way
Dont worry about the .htacess, you better off doing adding a route / redirect to the users site.yaml file, which is done by editing the

/user
└── /config
       |──/site.yaml

adding the line

routes:
   /fr.blog-(.)-article-(.).htm: 'blog/$1/article/$2'

Will take your link of http://localhost.dev/fr.blog-2-article-1.htm to display the logical page of http://localhost.dev/blog/2/article/1/ and displays the page item.md as a item.html.twig format

This would then use the below structure (even though it did feel messy when I was creating / testing it)

I used the default.md to capture if someone who tries to access directly by using part of the url.

Your page / folder layout would be something like this

/user
└── /pages
       |──/03.blog
           ├── blog
           ├── blog/ default.md
                    |── /1/
                    |── /article/ default.md
                         |── /1/ item.md
                         |    ├── /2/ item.md
                         |── /2/
                         ├── /article/ default.md
                               |── /1/ item.md
                               |── /2/ item.md

I am sure there is a better way (in organisation and structurally) but it will get you going.
You will have to work out, how you want to trap errors / partial links, but you can add a whole set of routes, basically following grav regex expression engine.

You do need to consider the impact on SEO with a structure like this, but if it is to replica an existing site and the presence is already doing well, then it will be a (of many) solutions

HTH

OK ! thanks a lot for answering.

Actually, I did not manage to make it work with your example, but... you gave me clues, and that's a lot.
Now I've to dig into debug and I'll come back later to give my solution (because I'm sure I'll find it now !)
thanks again !

maybe start of with a simplier example to get working

create your blog section in your pages section 99.blog
create a page with a default item, to give you a result if you request a blog of the menu http://localhost.dev/blog/

Then create a couple of subfolder under the 99.blog in the pages
call it 1
...
/user/pages/99.blog/1/default.md
/user/pages/99.blog/2/default.md
...

you page can just have a bit of content to say article 1 or article 2 repsectively

Test if you can access http://localhost.dev/blog/ and http://localhost.dev/blog/1/ and http://localhost/blog/2/

if so then add a test route in the /users/config/site.yaml file
...
routes:
/testing-(.).htm: '/blog/$1'
...

then you can test with the route of http://localhost.dev/testing-1.htm and http://localhost.dev/testing-2.htm

This should display each article. I can if I have still got the example I set up and zip the files for you to play with. I will set it up to work with quark theme, or do you a custom theme, so I can use the blog correct templates.

Hope that will speed up thing with an working example.
:)

I try and I try... :) of course with a very simple one.
Actually my site is fully working. (fijibooks.com for promotion 😆 )
so I can test an easy way.
And ... I finally did it ! Thanks to you 😋

After some different way, I finally run into the one I wanted
redirects:
'/blog-(.)-article-(.).htm': /$1/$2

the very last strange thing, is that it only works with redirects not routes.
This doesn't really bother me, but just for my personal experience, I'll keep searching a little 🙂

anyway thanks again !