Posted by Greg Donald on 01/15/05 20:01

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:46:54 -0500, Josh
<joshsbh@thesouthbeachhostel.com> wrote:
> I am converting a site to use includes instead of a Dreamweaver template. I
> want the URLs to look like this: www.my-site1234.com/contact instead of
> www.my-site1234.com/default.php?p=contact.
>
> I found some tutorials on editing the .htaccess file but where do I find it
> on the server?

The .htaccess file is created in the web directory where your .php
files are. It affects all directories from there down.


Looks like you may want something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z].*) default.php?p=$1 [L,qsappend]


You might also want

RewriteRule ^$ default.php?p=index [L,qsappend]

for a catch-all bounce to the homepage.


http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html


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Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
http://destiney.com/

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