URL Rewrite question

[colts]

I am trying to make static looking pages dynamically but have no clue how to do this. Everything is pointing to .htaccess work.

What I am trying to do is turn this:

www.mysite.com/index.php?get=keyword

into this:

www.mysite.com/keyword.html

I know you pros must be able to do this in your sleep, I'm just a noob when it comes to this though.

Any light you can shed on this would be amazing!:bowdown:

 

[jerryjr]

.htaccess URL Rewrite Tool

That should be able to help a bit.

 

[Houdas]

I usually use this in .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/*([^/]+/+)*([^.]*[^/])$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|pdf)$ index.php [L,QSA]

and then parse $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

 

[Ferbent]

then parse $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

Could you explain this part? How and where do I put this code?

 

[Houdas]

It depends on your application's design - how it translates an URL to a module/function, its URL mapping technique etc. Basically, I get the incoming request (for example /myapp/news/archive/3/) and parse it - it tells me that i need to get a module called "news", call method "archive" with parameter "3" (in the human language, "Display archive of news, page 3"). When combined with regular expressions for URL mapping, its very powerful and flexible - you can basically map *any* URL to *any* module/function in your application. It's also quite helpful for SEO - you can have a list of "pages", for every page you will have its URL scheme (regex), title, heading, meta description, meta keywords, it's template, which module does render it etc etc. Whats not in this list, throws a 404 page and so on.

 

[hugepedlar]

I believe this will work. Put it in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.htm? index.php?get=$1 [nc]

Also check out this tutorial.

.htaccess tricks and tips.. part two: url rewriting with mod rewrite.

Even a dumb shit like me can understand it.