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URL rewriting - LAMP

Hi,

There is a PHP script for my requirement, unfortunately it is without URL rewriting implementation. So it appears something like:

http://www.mydomain.com/category.php?id=1
or
http://www.mydomain.com/product.php?id=1

My Apache installation supports mod_rewrite and I'm comfortable with LAMP development. Please provide a link so that I can implement URL rewriting for the same and it should appear as:

Category Page URL as:
http://www.mydomain.com/electronics
or Product Page URL as:
http://www.mydomain.com/electronics/universal-remote

Its an hypothetical example and I'll implement the same for its article (text) management as well.

Thanks

Mark Gilbert

Something like this would work for you:

  Options +FollowSymLinks
  RewriteEngine On

  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f

  RewriteRule ^category/(\d+)*$ ./category.php?name=$1
  RewriteRule ^product/(\d+)*$ ./product.php?name=$1

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Ray Paseur

Some useful learning resources here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_engine
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/

You will also want to understand this:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/intro.html#regex

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Thanks guys, and apologies for not responding on time.
I'll go through it and get back to you.

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