Posted by Maarten on 11/16/05 12:14

Hi there Bob,

Interesting discussion you have going here. I can see why a search
engine might rank path names with relevant keywords higher than a URL
with keywords as parameters. But besides that, it also makes it a lot
easier for your visitors to find stuff on your site. www.php.net for
example uses this. You can search their site by adding keywords at the
end of the URL, i.e. www.php.net/mod_rewrite. Same goes for
wikipedia.org/wiki and dictionary.com. I like it a lot. Very cool and
very intuitive.

As for how they do it. Have a look at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html? It contains
many examples created by Ralf Engelschall, the man that invented
mod_rewrite according to mod-rewrite.com. I can also suggest the forum
at http://modrewrite.com/ where they have a beginner's corner :). I am
kind of new to this myself, but found these source very helpful.

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