redirection of pages after a certain url

may belong in different forum

[icpooreman]

I want to build a dynamic forum where I parse the url with php to determine what is displayed. So if my URL is site/forum/topic1 I look up topic1 in my DB and everything under that can be displayed. My question is since there is no actual site/forum/topic1 page how do I make my server treat that url as if it were site/forum?q=topic1.

[jjwdesign]

Apache Mod Rewrite Rules.

These rules can be placed in your document root .htaccess file. See the apache module documentation for more information.

For example: This might work ;)

RewriteRule ^([^/\.\s]+)\/([^/\.\s]+)\/([^/\.\s]+)\/$ /index\.php\?site=$1&forum=$2&topic=$3 [L]