Rewrite URL Help

[BoyBlue]

I know this is a common question, but can anyone give me advice on setting up a mod-rewrite that strips the URL of characters such as "?" and "=". I have scoured the message board and studied the other examples, but the solution eludes me.

I am trying to convert:

www.mydomain.com/resources/index.php?viewCat=1

to something like:

www.mydomain.com/resources/viewCat1.htm
or
www.mydomain.com/resources/categoryname

Here are the contents of my .htaccess file located in the /resources subdirectory:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^CatID([^.]+).*$ index.php?viewCat=$1
[T=application/x-httpd-php]

CatID is the category ID number from the MySQL database.

I know these repetitious newbie questions can get tiresome, but any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!

[pippo]

Hi,

> I am trying to convert:
>
> www.mydomain.com/resources/index.php?viewCat=1
> to something like:
>
> www.mydomain.com/resources/viewCat1.htm
> or
> www.mydomain.com/resources/categoryname
I'll suggest a solution to let what marked in bold works.

/resources/.htaccess

Code: Select all

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^viewCat([0-9]+)\.htm$ index.php?viewCat=$1 [L]


so a request for
www.example.com/resources/viewCat1.htm
will be redirected internally to
www.example.com/resources/index.php?viewCat=1



THanks,
Mr Andrea

[msolari]

Thanks Andrea!