.htaccess php friendly Urls SEO

Question

Not sure what is the problem with my .htaccess file or perhaps I do not understand yet how to use it.

As I understand it:

*i can place in href=" " in <a> tag something like

    someMeaningfulStuff/post-about-something-here

*i can have an .htaccess file in the same directory as the php script that is the actual target of the link which can pick up said url (rewriteRule), use a regular expression to extract a portion of it

AND

insert it in the actual url where the resource lives while client has on their browser url addres something like:

    http://localhost:8080/adminBlog/post-about-something-here

eventhough it is actually here:

    http://localhost:8080/adminBlog/viewPost.php?id=1

Am I wrong? Here is my files thanx in advance!

2. the url in index.php(root) to http://localhost:8080/adminBlog/viewPost.php?id=1

   echo '<h3><a href="/adminBlog/' . $res["postUrl"] . ' " target="_blank" title="link to post" rel="help">' . $res["postTitle"] . '</a></h3>';
   

where $res['posturl'] is the response from a query to a database which holds a response in the form:

    some-title-to-some-blog-post

2. have wamp/apache config:

   LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
   

   AllowOverride All
   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   Order allow,deny
   allow from all
   

3. .htaccess file:

   Options FollowSymLinks
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteBase /adminBlog
   RewriteRule ^/?adminBlog/(.+)$ /viewPost.php?id=$1
   

5. in http://localhost:8080/adminBlog/viewPost.php

$q = $dbConPDO->prepare('SELECT postId, postTitle, postDesc, postDate, postCont FROM ' .$x. ' WHERE postUrl = :friendlyUrl');
$q->execute(array(':friendlyUrl' => $_GET['id']));
$res = $q->fetch();

6. directory

    -c
      -wamp
        -www
          -index.php
          -adminBlog //(this dir is within www as index.php is)
            -.htaccess //(as above in #3)
            -viewpost.php

Answer 1

Solved!

I was mistakenly reasoning that the .htaccess file had to be in the folder of the target php script that was to handle the data while the referrer was in the root folder.

1. Referrer (<a href='' >;, in index.php) in root (/) now reads:

    echo '<h3><a href="viewPost/' . $res["postUrl"] . '" target="_blank" title="link to post" rel="help">' . $res["postTitle"] . '</a></h3>';

2 .htaccess in root now reads:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .+
 RewriteRule ^/?viewPost/(.+)/?$ adminBlog/viewPost.php?id=$1

Perhaps the RewriteBase is unnecessary as this file is in root dir.

It was as simple as that!

Thanx for the help!

Answer 2

If you want http://localhost:8080/post-about-something-here, the .htaccess file should be at the root folder. otherwise, it won't work.