need godaddy url rewrite help

godaddy mod url

[tibetandog]

While I program PHP on the side (ASP guy), I am not a Linux/UNIX master, nor adept, and I need to do a url rewrite.

First link:

http://www.example.com/category_programs.php?categoryID=4&category=Administrative

I want it to look like this :

http://www.example.com/Administrative

if it's like this

http://www.example.com/category_programs.php?categoryID=9&category=Business&records=2

I want
http://www.example.com/Administrative/2

I don't care if someone types in the latter and it doesn't work; that's not my concern.

I used this for a test

Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
rewriteEngine on
rewriteRule ^foo\.html$ [google.com...] [R=301,L]

Most of the traditional stuff that some helper tools produced would not work. http://www.example.com/pi.php

[edited by: jdMorgan at 7:19 pm (utc) on July 10, 2007]
[edit reason] Example.com & no buying/selling, please. [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

http://www.example.com/category_programs.php?categoryID=4&category=Administrative

I want it to look like this :

http://www.example.com/Administrative

First step: Change the link on your page to the second form. What is on your page determines what the URL actually is, and what it "looks like."

Second step: Add an internal rewrite (mod_rewrite) to change the default URL-to-filename translation for that URL, so that it resolves to the original filepath (script filename plus the required query string parameters).

Note that mod_rewrite cannot 'create' information, so we assume that "Adminstrative" implies all of "/category_programs.php?categoryID=4&category=Administrative" -- nothing more, nothing less.

Third step (optional): Add an external redirect using mod_rewrite to redirect the old dynamic URL to the new static one if and only if the request is a direct client request for the dynamic URL, and not occurring as a result of the previously-discussed internal rewrite (Use RewriteCond checking server variable THE_REQUEST to accomplish this). This will 'fix up' your search engine listings over time.

More info: [webmasterworld.com...]

Jim