pretty formed url's starting from the document root

If read an articla on phpbuilder where they explain how to get your php site
to run with "pretty-url's" in stead of those horrible, searchbot-scaring id
= ... methods.
<quote>
So in Apache's access.conf file, I added the following lines:
<Location /local>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
</Location>
This forces everything under the "/local/" directory to call a script
called "local" in the root of my server. "local" then uses PHP to parse the
URL and
act accordingly:
</quote>

But what if I want _all_ of my directories to go this way:

www.foobar.com
www.foobar.com/news
www.foobar.com/files

Should be processed with the same form.

How do I do this?

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Whilst lounging around on Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:27:37 +0200, "Rutger
Claes" <rutger.claes@no.spam.tiscali.be> amazingly managed to produce
the following with their Etch-A-Sketch:

> If read an articla on phpbuilder where they explain how to get your
> php site to run with "pretty-url's" in stead of those horrible,
> searchbot-scaring id = ... methods.
> <quote>
> So in Apache's access.conf file, I added the following lines:
> <Location /local>
> ForceType application/x-httpd-php3
> </Location>
> This forces everything under the "/local/" directory to call a
> script called "local" in the root of my server. "local" then uses
> PHP to parse the URL and
> act accordingly:
> </quote>
>
> But what if I want _all_ of my directories to go this way:
>
> www.foobar.com
> www.foobar.com/news
> www.foobar.com/files
>
> Should be processed with the same form.
>
> How do I do this?
>


This isn't a task for PHP (or shouldn't be anwyay) but rather down to
Apache's RewriteEngine.

You can do the likes of:


RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/news/(.*)$ /news.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/files/(.*) /files.php?id=$1 [L]


This would then use URLs such as:


http://www.foobar.com/news/1
http://www.foobar.com/files/103543


The URLs will stay the same in the AddressBar... but the .php?id=#
will actually be accessed as an actual redirection isn't performed =)


HTH.



Regards,

Ian

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