.htaccess rewriting url

invision power board subforum url

[dhil]

Hello guys,

I dont know how i am gonna explain this .. but let me try anyway ..

normally you have a forum with some Categories

now is it possible to make a mod, within the same license / database / ACP

to make a directory for each category

lets say you have 3 categories like chitchat, support , sales

right now it would be

http://directory.example.com/index.php?showforum=xyz
http://directory.example.com/index.php?showforum=xyz
http://directory.example.com/index.php?showforum=xyz

is it possible to solve this with .htaccess?

i am using invision powerboard

[edited by: jdMorgan at 4:27 pm (utc) on Jan. 26, 2008]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

Assuming that invision supports it --a question better asked in an invision users forum-- and that your DNS and server support wildcard subdomains, the following could be done with .htaccess and mod_rewrite:

http://chat.example.com/index.php -----> /index.php?showforum=chat
http://aupport.example.com/index.php --> /index.php?showforum=support
http://sales.example.com/index.php ----> /index.php?showforum=sales

Where the displayed/requested URL is shown on the left, and the 'real' server filepath and query are shown on the right.

Jim

[dhil]

can u please give a small what to put in .htaccess ..

i hope this soloution will give a better SEO as well

[jdMorgan]

Try a search for rewriting subdomains to subdirectories [google.com], and see the the documents cited in our forum charter [webmasterworld.com] and the tutorials in the Apache forum section of the WebmasterWorld library [webmasterworld.com].

Jim