help with htaccess

[lmark]

Hi,

I'm new here and I have a small problem writing an htacess url rewrite.

I need the user to see a link that looks like this:

www.mysite.com/product-catalog/part_1

and the server to get a link that looks like this:

www.mysite.com/index.php/product-catalog?ad=part_1

I would be really grateful if anyone could help me out with this.

Thanks :)

[g1smd]

As this question is asked almost every day here, we ask you read back through some of the previous times this was discussed and grab some code ideas from there. As a rough estimate this has been asked at least 1000 times so far. The last time was only yesterday. :)
[google.com...]

Additionally, as the sticky thread says, please use example.com or example."any TLD" in code examples in this forum.

[lmark]

I have looked into quite a few of these and believe me I would not have asked the question had I understood any of the answers.

I would greatly appreciate some help here, thanks.

[lucy24]

You're welcome.

[g1smd]

I'm not sure what different words I could use in this thread compared with what I wrote in the previous threads.

Certainly cutting and pasting one of those answers here would appear to be a futile exercise.

[lmark]

Sorry, maybe I'm jusr dense, but I didn't see anything that could solve my problem here in the other threads.

Thanks though.

[lmark]

Om, sort of at my wits end here...

I tried the following:
to get example.com/ad/part_1 to rewrite to example.com/product-catalog?ad=part_1

I did:

RewriteCond %{URL} ^ad/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ product-catalog?ad={C:1}

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?

Thanks :-*