url rewriting help

everyone..

I need to rewrite this URL

http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/tutors/index.php?tutorCode=1255&tutorName=Kasun%20Perera&city=Bandarawela

like this

http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/tutors/1255/Kasun+Perera.html

can anybody help me to do this using Apache’s mod_rewrite feature.

any comments are greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

this is my original URL

http://localhost/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/index.php?tutorCode=1255&tutorName=Jhon Amarathunga&city=Perth

I need to rewrite it like this

http://localhost/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/1255/Perth/Jhon Amarathunga.html

here tutor_insitute, profiles and tutors are sub directories in my root directory. index.php page exist in tutors directory and also my htaccess file placed there.

I did in my htaccess file like this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/([0-9]+)/([A-Za-z_]+)/([A-Za-z_]+)$ index.php?tutorCode=$1&tutorName=$2&city=$3 [NC]

but it is not working.. anybody tell me where I have gone wrong?

Thank you.

You're too restrictive with the name. IMO allow pretty much everything and let your code find out if the name is correct or not.

Your answer is completely not clear for me. No idea about IMO.. Can you elaborate this more, actually It will help me to clear this problem...

Thank you. 

[A-Za-z_]+

You require that the name have only letters and underscores. That isn't what you want. Change it so that it allows what you want it to allow.

No idea about IMO

For future reference, that means In My Opinion. (IMHO = same with HONEST).

For future reference, that means In My Opinion. (IMHO = same with HONEST).

Thanks for it..

[A-Za-z_]+

I change it like this

[A-Za-z_-+]+

But still my browser URL is same. it is not changing as I expect.

Wait, I think you have this backwards.

The purpose of modrewrite it to accept a URL like

http://www.mydomain.com/profiles/tutors/1255/Kasun+Perera

and translate it to

http://localhost/tutor_institute/profiles/tutors/index.php?tutorCode=1255&tutorName=Jhon Amarathunga&city=Perth

So that index.php gets run.

It does not change the URL in your existing link attributes.

Can I rewrite URL in localhost?  for 3 days  I am trying  to rewrite my URL in localhost.. still I cant get it works..

any comments are greatly appreciated.

Thank You.