Hi,

I have just finished laying out a university society website:
www.exeterflying.co.uk

I am trying to learn how to use .htaccess files to change the appearence of the URL.

My aim is to change the pages URLs which currently work like so:
Home page (also works as above): www.exeterflying.co.uk/index.php?p=home
And another example - Contact page: www.exeterflying.co.uk/index.php?p=contact

And to change them so that is the real URL but in the address bar in the browser they look somehting like this:
www.exeterflying.co.uk/home
and: www.exeterflying.co.uk/contact

I pressume I am right in thinking I should be using a .htaccess file and have got close to the result but it has always ended up redirecting the URL, ie changing it in the address bar when i get to the page!

Some of the combinations I have found and tried from google:


Am I on the right lines? Can anyone give me any pointers? I have already read most of the Apache page on this and either didn't fully understand it or just didn't apply to this.

Cheers,
Ed

Try something like this:

That will redirect anything after the slash to index.php?p=<text>. If you'd like to set up keyword-specific adjustments, do something like this:

I don't actually know for certain if you need the (/)? portion of the regular expression, but I figure it doesn't hurt.

Thanks a lot, thats excellent!

The first one keeps causing an internal server error but possibly thats something to do with the upload?! But the other one works and that is great. Got any links that I could read to understand it fully?

Thanks again,
Ed

Do you understand regular expressions(regex)?

If you don't, check out this website for some information about them.

Basically the RewriteRule's are regular expressions, and what I'm doing is capturing case where the word 'contact' or 'home' is the only extra on the server path - if you try connecting to the site using something like yoursite.com/home/test, it will throw an error(or perform strangely).

Moving to Building your Site.

Darn thank you man for creating this thread. This has bugged my head too much.