In stackoverflow, the page url is like How to store post variables value
But when we use php to create web pages, its most likely has a url like www,somewebsite.com/mypage?someid=123
And then the content is displayed.
I want to know how to convert www.somewebsite.com/mypage?someid=123
into www.somewebsite.com/mypage/some_page_link_here_which_is_static
Anybody Have idea how to do it? I tried searching this question first, but it showed me c/c++/java linking :|
Edit:
I tried some of youtube videos, My HTACESS code is
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %(REQUEST_URI) find/([0-9]+)/
RewriteRule find(.*)/ /find.php?id=$1
which will turn some url like
something/find.php?id=11
into
something/find/11
The .htaccess file is in root of my website.But it still fails. Have I done something wrong?
Many CMS and web programming frameworks support the implementation of such user (and search engine) friendly links.
On the lowest level, you may use the URL Rewrite feature found on all servers.
If you use Apache server, you have to edit the .htaccess file; for IIS (Windows server) the web.config file.
Google for url rewrite apache or url rewrite IIS.
Update: As an example, see this solution (borrowed from from CodeIgniter). You can of course replace index.php, images etc. with whatever you want.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
Update 2 - Explanation
As for a more in-depth explanation, I've found this excellent introduction/tutorial on the topic: URL Rewriting for Beginners
Hopefully this makes much more sense that the unexplained example above:)