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PHP site - switching from query params to paths

Discussion in 'Server Administration Help' started by raspberryh, Feb 28, 2012.

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    Hi guys,

    I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right section, so sorry in advance if this is the wrong place :-P

    There's a website where every single page is at index.php?page=about or index.php?page=contact. For SEO purposes, I'd like to convert it to be at /about, /contact, etc.

    I would still like the main handler to be 1 specific file, and it could do different things based on the parts of the path.

    This was really easy to do in AppEngine, I guess it is built-in. But I can't figure out how I would do this in just a regular PHP site. I mean if the website URL is www.example.com/about, won't the server look for the directory /about? How can I make it not look for the /about directory and instead just hand the request over to index.php? (Or some specific php file)

    Thanks!
    Heather


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    Is this for the WP project you've been working on ??

    If so, there is a setting within the WP section to turn that on if the server that it's on had the apache mod-rewrite module turned on...

    If not for WP... And the sites is on a Linux server, then you can usually accomplish the same thing with an .htaccess rule. You can search the forums for specifics on that... I know I've seen it answered several times...

    If you're on a windows server... Sorry... I believe server 2008 supports something similar... But it's a major pain.


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    Hi,

    Thanks for the reply! No it's not for the WP project, I am pretty sure this site is not in WP (but I have not been given the FTP info for it yet).

    I will try to find the info on the htaccess rule... but it's hard to figure out the correct terms to search for...

    Thanks again,
    Heather


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    That should work... Personally, I've been using windows based servers since NT, just recently setup and running a Linux server with apache... Wow!!! What have I been missing all these years ?

    Now I just gotta find an extra 4-6 hours a day to play catch up.


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