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[slee]

i have 4 pages on a site like this:

index.php?linkhdr=home
index.php?linkhdr=prices
index.php?linkhdr=links
index.php?linkhdr=contact

how do i use the apache mod rewrite to make it www.url.com/home/
www.url.com/prices/
www.url.com/links/
www.url.com/contact/

any help is much appreciated

[ChristsLittleFlock]

Perhaps try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ /index.php?linkhdr=$1

[rmm5t]

This is pretty close but might be more useful:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /index.php?linkhdr=$1

This handles a few more cases than the previous post. Plus you can also check to make sure that the path isn't a directory or file first with this placed before the previous RewriteRule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]

If the path is a file or directory, no other rewrite rules are considered. This kind thing prevents something like /images/ getting replaced with /index.php?linkhdr=images. I doubt the latter is what you'd want.

[slee]

i cant get this to work ive tried all of the above.

there is the above and one other file in the root called enquiry.php

what am i doing wrong?

[Elliot A]

Are you sure your putting it in a .htaccess file and that it is accessable?

If you are, post any errors your getting.

[slee]

ye im putting it in a .htaccess file and ive made it accessible.

i dint actually have any errors it just doesnt work.

if i go to www.url.com it says im forbidden to access the index.php file.

[outrigger]

try this it may do the job for you.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/index.php?linkhdr=([a-z0-9]*)
RewriteRule ^(.*) /%1/

[yabsoft]

RewriteEngine on

#match top cat
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/$ index.php?linkhdr=$1&rule=1 [L]

Try the above code.