RewriteRules doesn't work in WHMCS

[DennisHermannsen]

Hi,

I'm having trouble rewriting some of the URLs in WHMCS. WHMCS is installed in /client directory.

I want to rewrite all of the product URL (/client/cart.php?gid=1 fx) to /client/cart/<id> or similar.

I've tried this to rewrite it to /client/gid/<id>:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^gid/([^/]*)\.html$ /cart.php?gid=$1 [L]

But that didn't work.

I'm doing this in the .htaccess file in the /client/ directory.

 

Any idea why that won't work?

Edit: Managed to make it work... Forgot to put the rules above the ones created by WHMCS.

Edited May 29, 2019 by DennisMidjord

[brian!]

17 minutes ago, DennisMidjord said:

Any idea why that won't work? 

i'm tempted to suggest that it might be Friendly URLs and WHMCS' own redirection/htaccess rules bypassing this.

whether it's even worth spending time trying to get those htaccess to work, I can't say - many have tried. 🙂

I did post an ugly workaround in the thread below that adds redirection rules to the 'page not found' template - I daresay you could expand it to work with product groups...

so that if someone types in /client/cart/minecraft, it redirects to any page/site you specify - could be a sales page, could be the product group in the cart etc

it's obviously not an ideal solution, but unless you crack the htaccess issue, it's a working alternative.