Extensions Question (.html, .php, Etc)

[TheMovieman]

I didn't know how to quite describe my question in the topic, but I believe it has to with scripting, so I hope this is in the right section.

 

Looking around the Net, I notice some sites have URLs to pages like this:

 

www.somesite.com/folder/page

 

How do they do this without an extension? I'd like to do the same thing or somethign similar. For instance my review of "The Closer":

 

www.moviemansguide.com/reviews/DVD/read.php?id=closer-season3

 

Is there a way to make it:

www.moviemansguide.com/reviews/DVD/closer-season3 or closer-season3.html?

Edited June 26, 2008 by TheMovieman

[TCH-Bruce]

They are most likely using some sort of CMS package where the post title becomes the URL. Blogs do this using a method called Permalinks. It's basicly a translation done in the .htaccess file.

[Gabi ~ ClaytonWorks]

www.somesite.com/folder/page

 

How do they do this without an extension? I'd like to do the same thing or somethign similar. For instance my review of "The Closer":

 

I'm not sure about the /page part, but if you have a folder and the url is

www.somesite.com/folder/

and you have an index.htm (or index.html) inside that folder, then

www.somesite.com/folder/

will take you to the index page without you having to type /index.htm

[OJB]

As Bruce said, its by using RewriteRule in your .htaccess file - essentially it is apache mod_rewriting but not done at a server level but rather directory level (as on shared hosting you obviously don't get access to the http.conf file)

 

 

have a read of this:

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

[TCH-Dick]

Try this in your htaccess file

 

>RewriteEngine On 

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /read.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

[TheMovieman]

Thanks for the help. I'll give it a try later on

[TheMovieman]

Well, I gave it a try and it didn't work. I have a few htaccess files (one on the main and another in the "reviews" folder. Tried for both and it didn't work. Thanks for helping, though.

[TheMovieman]

I should mention that when I did try, I got a 404 error.

[OJB]

If its a 404 then it means that the page you have pointed it to doesn't exist...

 

So i guess its something to do with:

 

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/?$ /read.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

 

 

Im no good at mod_rewrite so I dont know

 

 

 

If it was a 500 error it would have been a .htaccess error.. so I imagine its that line I have pasted above. Its possibly looking in the wrong directory? Not sure