Re: How do I create friendlier URLS?

On an Apache Server you can use REWRITE in an .htaccess file located in your www root directory.
file: .htaccess

#start the engine
RewriteEngine on

#this needs to be set to allow the URL manipulation
Options +FollowSymlinks

#the directory the manipulations will take place on
RewriteBase /

# mod_rewrite allows you to use Regular Expressions
# to define the manipulations

RewriteRule ^(.*\.html)$ cgi-bin/foo.cgi?call=$1
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So http://www.mydomain.com/bar ends up as
http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/foo.cgi?call=bar.html

see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

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Re^2: How do I create friendlier URLS? by blogical (Pilgrim) on Feb 23, 2007 at 02:52 UTC
I know you can use mod_rewrite for this but I don't have access to it	[reply]