Mod Rewrite Help

Need help figuring the code

[bbott]

I have a directory and the link appear like this:

http://www.example.com/?c=1
http://www.example.com/?c=220
etc...

I need them to appear like this:

http://www.example.com/1
http://www.example.com/220

If you could help me out i'd really apreciate it.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:24 pm (utc) on May 2, 2005]
[edit reason] Removed specifics per TOS. [/edit]

[jd01]

Hi bbot,

If you start with this link:
[webmasterworld.com...]

read the thread.

then follow the link in the thread, you should have a better answer and know more than I have time to type right now.

Hope this helps... should get you started and help you clarify how the whole process works.

Justin

[bbott]

Hmm, that didn't really help. Whatever I try is not working...

Anyone have any ideas?

[jd01]

Ok, first idea...

You're going the wrong way...

You have to link from your pages to the new 'friendly' URL's that do not exist, then through the use of mod_rewrite, you can tell your server to serve the static request from the dynamic page.

Your rewrite may very well look something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /?c=$1 [L]

or if you prefer to go to a specific page name:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /page.php?c=$1 [L]

^ start here
() create a variable.
[0-9] any number between 0 and 9.
+ 1 or more of the immediately preceding.
$ stop matching

/page.php start from the root and go to here.
?c= add a query string.
$1 add the variable I previously stored.
[L] stop processing now.

Maybe I got the wrong thread, I thought that one explained the format of the links. EG fake vs real pages.

Hope this helps.

Justin