Change Script name to keyword

[roycerus]

I have a wordpress install where the url structure is:

www.domain.com/index.php?/topic_title

I want to change this to:

www.domain.com/keyword/topic_title

Is this possible using htaccess and mod_rewrite?
Kindly help.

Regards,
Roy

[g1smd]

Yes and no.

Mod_rewrite does not change URLs.

You need to change the links on your pages to the new URL format.

Then you use mod_rewrite to connect requests for those URLs to the old internal filepath on the server using an internal rewrite.

Additionally, you also set up a redirect from the old URLs to the new URLs so that the old URLs cannot be indexed.

The sticky post at the top of the forum points to several previous threads where the process is described in detail.